Show Suppo SUPPOSED sm DISCOVERY OF THE TOWER OF BA BEL dela BELA A letter in the boston traveller travel ler from beirouty Bei rout dated dec dee 8 after r giving an acco account tint of a visit by mr air place french consul at to the plains of arbela has the following account of a discovery supposed to be the veritable to tower of babel passing on mr Place and his party at length discovered what they tiley believed to be nothing less than the veritable remains of the tower of ba be bel the wonder of wonders and the grandest spectacle speet acle acie which tho the eyes of men can contemplate jn thia this aae of the fhe world this proud tower which was built in defiance of heaven and aimed to pierce the very skies has losi lost in the course of ages its cloud reaching eleta eleya elevation tion six of its eight stories have fallen and crumbled into dust but the two which remain are so high that they may be seen for fifty or sixty miles around of the tower is quadrangular and each side about feet long iong ong the tower is made of bricks and of the buiest clay and of a white color which is a little shaded with a yellow tint under a clear sun and as a whole this ancient monument I 1 it of human kill and daring darlng presents a fine blending of colors which sets the painters pallet at defiance before being ba baited leed deed lied the bricks had be been covered with characters traced with ae he accuracy accuracy y of the hand of a writing master near the top of the letters the straight strokes were adorned with flourishes resembling the heads of nails all was neat regular ald aid ard severe severed and indeed those who saw these specimens of ancient call cali that the file fathers of the human race wrote a be better belter ater hand than their children among amo 1 ng the interesting discoveries of mr place were cei lain tain inscriptions on fillets of gold silver and copper and also upon a metal now unknown and arid which has somewhat of the appearance of ivory it has been submitted to the experiments of an intelligent metallurgist and its qualities will soon be ascertained Som every curious photographs taken by the expedition completed their labors one of which was of the ruins of the palace of the famous queen semiramis this ancient monument situated on the hight bight of a mountain raised by the hands of men overlooks ilie the awful solitudes which surround lake van a body of water six or seven times limes larger than thau lake geneva |