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HERCULANEUM] How much of the town has been uncovered, how much still lies hidden beneath the lava which overflowed it in A.D.79, is disputed.

Of its town-walls and gates no trace has yet been found.

But nearly all its public buildings seem to be known; the graves on the east side, if correctly mapped by their discoverers and if coeval with the streets and houses, leave no room for further 'insulae' in that direction, while the great country-house called the 'Casa dei Papiri' plainly stood outside the town on the north-west.

From these facts one modern writer has calculated that Herculaneum was less than a quarter of a mile long, less than 350 yds.