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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt:...portico at Home which was threatening to fall, first by strengthening its foundations at all points, so that it could not be displaced. He then lined the walls with sheep's fleeces and thick mattresses, and, after having attached ropes to the entire edifice, he succeeded, by dint of manual force and the use of capstans, in giving it its former position. But Tiberius, through jealousy, would not allow the name of this artist to appear in the newspapers." Now that you have been told a little concerning the ways of the Roman people, you may quit the Thermse, but not without casting a glance at the heating apparatus visible in a Email adjacent court. Tins you approach by a long corridor, from the wpodytera. There you find the hypocamt, a spacious round fireplace which transmitted warm aij through lower conduits to the stove, and heated the two boilers built into the masonry and supplied from a reservoir. From this reservoir the water fell cold into the first boiler, which sent it lukewarm into the second, and the latter, being closer to the fire, gave it forth at a boiling temperature. A conduit carried, the hot water of the second boiler to the square basin of the calidariuin and another conveyed the tepid water of the first boiler to the large receptacle of the labrum. In the fire-place was found a quantity of rosin which the Pompeians used in kindling their fires. Such were the Thermae of a small Roman city. VI. THE DWELLINGS. Jaratus And Panba.--The Atrium And The Peristyle.--The Dwelling REFURNISHED AND Repeopled.--The SLAVES, THE KlTCHEN, AND THE Taplb.--The Morning Occupations Of A Pompeian.--The Toilet Op A Pompeian Lady.--A Citizen Supper: The Courses, The Guests.--The Homes Of The Poor, And The Palaces Of Rome. In order, now, to study the...