Show excavation A auty of american explorers going to study tio mounds in central asia X Y sn dr jolin 1 peters saor of kilebrew in th e UnI venity of pennsyl dr Il arper instructor in assyrian at istle college and mr J 1 prince of the class of 1888 columbus college will leave this morning on the steamship fulda for london bilth eventually conducting explorations anti ex ions in ionia bild lie asia they will be accompanied by mr J 11 11 and mr 11 11 field of architect the only previous expedition of ambre character to babelonia babylonia Baby lonia was the expedition of though french and german savanis savants h ave on ro e I 1 ted their researches I 1 it this region ahe expenses of dr 1 rt ill be cefra sed s ed bv the BIA fund il ich I 1 aar e en 1 abed by of adiong the members of the exe ifa commit tee of this fund are prof allen of vinceton rin ceton and mr langley secretary of tile smithsonian institution while le scribing the nature of the expedition to a xam reporter last evening Dr peters said to the general name for the whale region around the city of babylon it is a vast plain dotted mounds which indicate the burial places of the cities the in huud 0 ver the city of baba ion square that over arach ten fauaro miles other mound sare very small and cover 8 p just awe shall excavate low ion boshall stay and what we shall tl with the inscriptions or relics dis covered all depends on the result of negotiations now lendini with the turkish government IN e shall all meet at aleppo a four day ride 01 horseback from Alex andretta about we shall then ride horseback six W eks through the moun with a caravan to bagdad we go not so much or account of the bri gands which are not so nu as former I 1 as to protect ourselves from the will beasts nights we shall go into camp I 1 bought our aenlo oday o day I 1 have ordered 1000 cans of I 1 blut nd moats for the journey so as to break the nare fare apon the barty gradually W e work in tile a beep raising section we can get alenty of mutton otherwise we must ive on goat flesh and go at milk wheat I 1 am glad to scy grows wild there so that we need not want for like bread 0 willbo the excavating proper will be paid ten or t wenty cents a d a 7 their correa b d 11 we malre large excava eions we shall employ two three or four hundred the pick 8 and shovels we take with us is an experiment I 1 have also ordered six wheela art v 8 though tile natives always v 0 rk ta baskets I 1 may have the experience of the american who first tried to wheelbarrows in brazil where the natives them on their beads and I 1 p er things on top of them IV li v e in ado all arrangements for on eyears work everything depends on our success and the di 8 position of the turkish government |