Show A relic in pompeii th the Acad academic emle emie des sciences has been manch ranch interested during its last sittings bythe by the examination ina ini tion of a more singular relic of pompeii thail tharl any which has yet been brought to light vestige e of ancient days consists of a branch ga of cypress wood proceeding from the think twink of a 11 cypress I 1 pi re ss tree still standing firm upon upon I 1 its ts roots loots I 1 it is to baran we e are indebted ini for thi s valuable and unique discovery the neapolitan government having commenced digging a canal in the environs of poul peL baron happening to be passing where the workman were lvere busy bascam ar attracted by the difficulty experienced by the men to pull out the stumps in the bed of the canal which they declared must be piles driven in fortha for tha foundation of some building bading long since perished from the surface of the earth the savant however thought otherwise he be made the workmen isolate the stumps and discovered roots of vegetation which had struck into the soil during the first century of the christian era the savant upon further farther examination ard pronounces the trees to have been cypresses presses cy the extremity of the trunk and roots of which have been buried in gravel gravely and has been thereby preserved intact child every other portion of the tree has been destroyed 10 lo london n star may slay 25 23 |