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between homes consisted of the house walls. Little narrow streets, wide enough only for one chariot were paved with large boulders, always in grey. Upon these from long years of hard use, the chariot wheels had left undeniable grooves worn into the stones. 
Some of the walls are interesting because of the old paintings which are admirably perserved upon them. The old coloring of these are lovely and the motifs are interesting in line and design. Garlands cupids, chariots animals are used in profusion in these wall decorations. As far as I am able to find our there is no religious significance which is quite surprising in this [despaired?] age.
The museum contains household utensils, foods, mirrors, statuary and so on. The most interesting phaze of all to me however, are the plaster cast bodies, made from and showing the position of some of the people who perished in the burial of Pompeii. The people who died were cemented in the hardening lava and of course the lava could not displace the bodies. So in time the flesh decayed, as all flesh does everywhere, and the [shellion?] together with the mold made by the original body remained in the rocks or soil from this it was possible to cast the figures and reconstruct the position of the casts that are now upon display in the museum there. 
is taking place at the Monikarnika [Glrul?] in Benares at the identical time.

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between homes consisted of the house walls. Little narrow streets, wide enough only for one chariot were paved with large boulders, always in grey. Upon these from long years of hard use, the chariot wheels had left undeniable grooves worn into the stones. Some of the walls are interesting because of the old paintings which are admirably perserved upon them. The old coloring of these are lovely and the motifs are interesting in line and design. Garlands cupids, chariots animals are used in profusion in these wall decorations. As far as I am able to find our there is no religious significance which is quite surprising in this [despaired?] age. The museum contains household utensils, foods, mirrors, statuary and so on. The most interesting phaze of all to me however, are the plaster cast bodies, made from and showing the position of some of the people who perished in the burial of Pompeii. The people who died were cemented in the hardening lava and of course the lava could not displace the bodies. So in time the flesh decayed, as all flesh does everywhere, and the [shellion?] together with the mold made by the original body remained in the rocks or soil from this it was possible to cast the figures and reconstruct the position of the casts that are now upon display in the museum there. is taking place at the Monikarnika [Glrul?] in Benares at the identical time.