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Show WORLD'S SUNKEN CITIES. i I lit 9 I Bells of St. Marys' May Toll on the Ocean's Depths MAM I Like Those of Old Port Royal. WiM I It l lwlleied bi mini that Venice l grnlually sinking Inlo Ihe Art.lstl. mil that she will dleapptnr bfneslh Ihe wslers of the r.u lognnn from whlih her psl uce-tmwnm Islends arise other cllls hsie gone thnt wns before her and ships now .all mer spots ivhli h wore once terming term-ing with a populous lift M the entrantc to the harbor of Klmts-Inn Klmts-Inn Jam. Its, lbs nrlxlna! tity of Tort itoial lies fathom deep beneath the blue a ml .unlit waters of the ( arlMxiin sen A in rrow slrlp or Ilnd on which lire it small . Hit men. and a fort Is nil th.lt Is left of what wns nn ihe richest nnd wbkidest ti'un In the West Indies It wns Hi, re-soil re-soil nt plr.it. i. wborolid there tiom their ilcprctiKlms anl uix.lt the illy bltleous Willi Ihelr reielr lint thisf plrales brought grettl stores of their loet to ihe ill and Its tnmnnricKrew and lluutlshed l'nlates 1111.I thurtbes were Inilll a plrun otl.n slrlilng li i. rlth endowment of a thurtli lo snuare his U'tounls Willi 1 hroiighnut the gnaler port of the sei-enleetllli sei-enleetllli cenllirv no l.mn In the llelern World wns so niiignlnitiil ns to Its buildings build-ings nr so IlKlirlnus us to lis hnlilts ns Port Ituinl llien one ilnl In l2 Ihe miner mi-ner of the Ixird shook Ihe lnl.m.l t.f J,, niolen and Ihe Breiittr pin of I'urt Itojal sunk beneulh Ihe sen earning with It hundreds ot Its Inhnbll inls loneis pil nis churches anil forls went d iwn many of Ihcm not tumlileil In ruins b the slunk but slnipl Unking boilll) beneath the w ties On a bright dn), sailing oier the spot where Porl lloval nnie stontl me csn look for down through .he char wnler and see Ihe remains of the ilt slltl stnullng ihere on Ihe oeenli laillnm with llshes swim-inlng swim-inlng iiIhiui iimnng Us towers and ..rent tropin,! stnweeds wnllng f rt in Its sunken The negroes of Jnintilea-iind some while I peoph too will t II .ul that before n. I storm the sunkfn liell of Ihe gmt tslbe. tlrnl will 1. went il.u,. will. Ihe ill m Hull niiful dsi In UM can tie benrd ills-I Iln. Hi tolling lieltiw ihe wiiv.s rung ns n w imliiK bv Ihe ghostli hnmls of the splr- Iw of ilepnrled buttaneers which hnitnt Ihe silliuinrln. cll I', ople who do mil be , lleie In glum, bu, think the bale Leant I 111. tolling nr the bell sny the oMilnnnllon I. thnt when the ill) sunk the it mil I.. II of tin cathedral was not thrown from Its pin. e but still hatlKS ns It nrlKluall) did The tonitlig storm before It reathes J l-milcn, l-milcn, sllrs up Ihe wnlers of the rnrlb-hem, rnrlb-hem, nmt semis In noon the shore tleen w lies which roll through the sunken city nnd set the lull a tt.llliiK Another sunken ell) of minim Is II line, the .pi, nil I resort on the Italian court where Nero and iallguH 'reieled nnd drnuk deep ' A slriiKSlIng llllnge nnd henp of ninrlle ruins still slnnd upon Ihe shore und Innr Ihe nunc or llnlne, but the greater part of Ihe cltj lies Unentlt tho waters of the Meilllerrnnenn und tourist, from Naples go out lh"rc nnd Kite down Into the waters and try tn tntth a gllmpso of the stlhmrrrpil elli The ri-so.t of nil the wealthy nobles of Itnme when Itonie wns mlntrtss of Ihe irorld, Ilnlie wns a ninrtel of luxurious splendor I'nl ,i e nflrr pulnoi wns built on the shore nnd arcliltcetn deslne,l miiRtilll ct nt strut tuies exlindlng out Into Ihe sen When Home tie, iicd ii ml Ihe Hatha rnv-aged rnv-aged It.il llalnn wns sieknl b) Ihe In in.lers Hoon after tht I IIS l Ban lo sink 1 Irst Ihe biillillnil which hnd their foundations foun-dations In Ihe wnlf r sul si led beneulh the wines, und then the spa mi.le nn nttnclt nn the bind llriiliinll) Ihe shorn line re ceiled nnd the Mcdltirriineiin flowel lliniiiRh the streets where Iln. Irian hnd drlien his Imperial rhirlot nnd Horace Im I wnlked, thinking of his nest poem Thfse proinonlorlen, crownril with grnnd towers and gorgeous pnlnces, were under-inlneil under-inlneil nnd toppleil Into the ilet p, until at lust the mnlir part of the splemll I city wan suhmtrgtd Its illsniiptitiiinee wns not sudlen. like that of I'urt Honl, nnd duo to some tnnvulslon of nnlure, but llnlne went don In Its denlh grnduulls. as Vrnlee Is snll tn be rolng In llollund the sulxlleiiio of the land has brniiRht It nbout thnt many towns, once popullils, lire now eoveretl bs the sen. The oil Hoinnn ramp or llrllltllblirg. airier air-ier sinking Isnenth the wines, emerged nxiln III l'.:o only tn dlsuppenr, nnd It rem llns now lie In deep watt r opposite Iho town of Kntwljk The nrlklnnl Kntwljk llself Is now benenth the waters, as nlsn nre the original towns of Hchcieiilnftcn, Hamburg and nginonil In futt, n suetes-sioit suetes-sioit of towns bearing these names In now nl tho bottom of the sea, for thes repeatedly repeat-edly hnie been rebuilt further Inlun.l ni the land sunk and the waves come In tn take possession The liodwln sinds, lnrgo nnd dsiiReroim nilB shoals off the southeast const of England, 'J IftH H wc, oni e ii.'tile the witer nnd formed rt I 3 i ii.ffl flourishing estate as Ihe property of FSnrl i 1.1 1) aJIbM (loditlu rbero wns no cits on the Oodwln Ill'MlBj H estate when It subsided beneath the sea, 1 , I f.jiH H but scleral small Ullages went down tn ',' I,HH the dtep when the tract ot country grad V ItsiafaV H llullj illsnppenrril beiitnlh thn waters I i ' , fj ! lluirr are legend, which mny or may noo ( ft , 5 Ifal I. true of lost cities sunk nt the bottom I ig il of Hwlss Inkrs-Neiv lurk Mall and Ux- j ,t' 1 S 1H press I'M d ( |