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Show ScuUEiiAss, after fivo yeara' rt&t, is ag-iiu at work exhuming tho buried nncieut cities of Asia. He doubta not bis ability to lecate the site of old Troj with euch accuracy that tne most skeptical must bow assent. His excavations are going on at a depth of eorae thirty feet, and among the curious articles lately brought lo light ia a huge wooden distafl eleven feet long. If Paris made Helen birthday presents of auch dimensions, whit a delicate duck of u women ebo must have been 1 It U tj be hoped Schhemann may be able to make eome such interesting discoveries as were made in the excavations exca-vations at Fompeii, where the fall of ashes and dust from Vesuvius was so gentle aa to preserve the shapes of people, and articles of their daily life, so that they were produced in p'aster casts. Still the peculiar cause of the destruction and burial of Pompeii may have made it an exception to all ancient buried cities; and even if Helen's distaff his appeared the lady herself may have declined to have her beautiful ferm preserve! for a plaster cast. Too bad if true! |