The Palace and Park by Phillips, Forbes, Latham, Owen, Scharf, and Shenton

Chapter 1

The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Palace and Park This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook. Title: The Palace and Park Author: Samuel Phillips Edward Forbes R. G. Latham Richard Owen George Scharf F. K. J. Shenton Release date: June 30, 2019 [eBook #59843] Language: English Other information and formats: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59843 Credits: Produced by Chris Curnow, Harry Lamé and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PALACE AND PARK *** Produced by Chris Curnow, Harry Lamé and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Transcriber’ Notes: Italics text has been transcribed between _underscores_, bold face text between =equal signs=, and blackletter text between ~tildes~. ^{text} represents superscript text. Small capitals have been replaced by ALL CAPITALS. The [T] in the Journal represents the symbol rather than the letter T; the [TH] and [T] in Discovery of the Ancient Cities represent a large TH ligature and a large T respectively. More Transcriber’s Notes may be found at the end of this text. [Illustration: VIEW OF BUILDING FROM THE NORTH.] THE PALACE AND PARK: ITS NATURAL HISTORY, AND ITS PORTRAIT GALLERY, TOGETHER WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THE POMPEIAN COURT. IN THE UNDERMENTIONED GUIDES: