Show in the midst of the t ne hall of the market place of taurus there is an equestrian statue which some think to be joshua the son of nun null others it was in fact brought from froin an ali cioch bloch the great moreover the stone pedestal of that statue has inscribed upon it an account of the russians who in the latest times will destroy the city to which oc occurrence cOrence that bronze image of a man which is seen been placed there bound and kneeling offers but a very small obstacle lit in addition to this the left foot of the great horse predicts by an insert inscription option the same thing which was inscribed on it the pedestal the great hollow column likewise and the literally the ay ary hill a pite pile of stones in a certain locality of byzantium declare the final overthrow and aid sieges of the city nicetas Chon Chonia lates tes a historian of constantinople who flourished lit in the latter part of the twelfth century gives a detailed defa ailed account of the various public monuments monument of byzantium and after minutely describing the bronze statue of A nomad oil on the s servant of the winds proceeds to say but nevertheless this surpassingly beautiful of art they delivered up to the metal founders in the same manner as they also disposed dispose il of that statue of a hoseman ho seman in the faa faq square I 1 iare of tau tan aps placed on a pedestal erected a under ader it in the form of a t this ible of heroic figure and of size stupendous pen dous whom some used to declare to be jos joshua it a a the son conof of nun delving the conjecture from circumstance that flint that hero with his hand extended towards the setting sun seemed to command it to stand still on gibson hut but most men considered it to be who had been reared in and who was tb rider of pegasus for that horse as is also told of pegasus when he was ri running tuning freely without restraint over the plains safely rejected a rider inasmuch as he h tr aled oy y means ot of wings as well as feet I 1 11 ii M indeed a certain ancient report which has hap come down even to our own time used to be in every ones mo mouth a tb to the effect that in the left eft hoof of tb fore fare feet of this horse there was 00 oi healed the image of a man which some said was wag the figare of one belon belonging P ing to the ven venetian e ti an r race ace others of a man of those western nations which were not allieson allies allie of the romans or belonging to the bulgarian bulgarians Bulga rians never therefore was his hoof very firmly attached to the pedestal lest at some time those things which were concealed within should be taken from it yet in later days after the horse and the rider were broken in pieces and thrown into the fire a bronze bronzo statue was discovered to be buried in the hoof of the horse clad in a cloak after the style of the ordinary woollen ea cloak but as the gatins cored cared but too little for those portents which were I 1 sculptured on this equestrian statue they threw I 1 i that also into the fire I 1 the pedestal of this statue we understand is still standing at constantinople and the In scrip I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 tiou contained ad in the status statue that on I 1 I 1 it is still remembered tho the tor J sensitiveness when it is alluded to i that it involved their nationality ins in w the reason why the pedestal did not fate of the statue sauta e was that it was of sto gurowski Gur in the last chapter of his hie i r I 1 work on russia rusia as it is says the appellation of constantinople among the is Czari grod the alio city of tho the czar speaks of tilts the annex alon of 9 russia so as inevitable the object of aspiration and of falci 11 the political combinations formed orme an and I 1 in europe threaten to bring ob ab ut th the ment of the venerable prediction so much bucl importance has been attached a peculiar interest to what under onder othe stances would scarcely have seemed ue the historians attention translated literally joshua the I 1 all nonsense arises ably from the in I 1 tile greek transcriber in writing noun nauna ev post poet |