Show A SUBMERGED CITY it has appended lapp app ened many times in the history of the world that cities I 1 haire ha fallen fillen into decay and finally disappeared so entirely that their exis tence has not been suspected by the ordinary traveller nineveh babylon and carthage are the most notable instances ot of the destruction due to war pestilence and jimine sometimes nature lends a land as in the following strange cw the city authorities of on the peninsula nula of istria in the adriatic atif sea discovered a little south of the peninsula the ruins of a large town at the bottom of the sea it baa has been observed for many ars are that As fl shermene hermens nets were sometimes ot entangled angled in what appeared to be awes of masonry of which frag hta were brought up from the sea bed led A driver declared that ho he had een seen walla walls and streeta below the vater the cit authorities decided to investigate vesti gate they sent bent down a diver bibo ho at the depth of eight five feet wad found himself surrounded on the bottom of the sea by ruined walls lie ile I 1 says he be knows they were the work of man he lie is a builder by trade and he recognized the layers of mortar continuing his explorations he traced the line of walls and was ablo able to distinguish how the streets were laid out he did not see any doors or window windo openings for they were bidden hidden by masses of seaweed and in cru stations he ile traced the masonry for a distance of one hundred feet where he had to atop stop as his diving cord would not permit him to go further ho tie had proved beyond a doubt that he had found the ruins of an inhabited tern which through some catastrophe had been sunk stink to the bottom of the sea some people think that they atif this tilts lost tow with the island mentioned by the elder under the a anra ae of clasa near istria this island cannot be found no nov noa A and it Is thought the submerged town ton may have been beer a settlement on the island that so disappeared to accept good advice Is but to increase one once s own ability goethe e |