and carried off by two Cupids aided by a satyr.  Turning to the lower shelf the visitor should examine several antique busts.  First there is a bust, conjectured to be that of Achilles; then there is an old Hercules; then a Bacchante; then a bust of Aratus; a female head; and a tragic mask from the lid of a sarcophagus.  With the examination of this shelf the visitor closes his inspection of the second division, and should at once advance into the

Third division.

First, let the visitor notice, placed in front of the third pilaster, a celebrated copy of the statue of Praxiteles, of Cupid bending his bow.  This celebrated copy is four feet, three and a half inches, in height.  It arrived in this country originally as a present to Edmund Burke, from Rome, by Barry, the painter.  Numerous copies of this Cupid exist, and the one before the visitor is not the best.

In this compartment or division, the visitor should also remark several sepulchral urns with figures in relief.  Amid other sepulchral monuments are, an altar inscribed by Annia Augustalis, to the manes of M. Clodius, his brother Felix, and to Tyrannus; and a bas-relief discovered near the mausoleum of Augustus, representing a Muse standing before a dramatic poet.  Hereabouts also the visitor should notice an altar, ornamented with bas-reliefs, dedicated by Aurelius Timotheus to Diana; a small figure of Neptune from Athens; a veiled Ceres bearing a torch, from Athens; a draped Muse in terra cotta holding a lyre; and a cippus, with a representation of Silenus riding a panther.  On turning to the lower shelf, the visitor will at once be struck with the sarcophagi.  Here are three Etruscan sarcophagi, two of alabaster, and one in peperino.  On all three are recumbent female figures, and in front of the first the hunt of the Calydonian boar; of the second, Scylla; and of the third, a bas-relief representing Achilles dragging Penthesilea from her chariot.  On this shelf also are, a bas-relief showing Luna encompassed by the signs of the Zodiac, and a sun-dial supported by the claws and heads of lions.  Turning now to the upper shelf, the visitor should examine the bas-reliefs deposited thereon.  Upon the first, the visitor will notice a funeral car, shaped like a temple drawn by four horses, with Jupiter and the Dioscuri on the sides of the car; upon the second, the bas-relief represents Ulysses and Diomedes detecting Achilles disguised as a female among the daughters of Lycomedes; and the subject of the third relief is a marriage in the presence of Juno Pronuba, showing the bridegroom taking the bride’s hand, and holding the marriage contract.  Having glanced at these objects, the visitor’s way lies forward to the

Fourth division.