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340 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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The Excavations " Carthage At Carthage A...
hel Admiral other p , and eminent Smy found th men , Ms Mr idea . interested Layard readil , Mr y in seconde . Monckton such d undertakings by Sir Milnes Gardiner , an . d a It Wilkinson num ended ber in of _,
Princi Dr 111 . stated Davis pal Secretary " applying Dr . of to Davis State the for " Earl to _forei his of lordshi Clarendon gn Affairs that , , for then the Government attention Her Majesty of aid the 's . p
scientific world , says hadat different , timesbeen directed to the ruins of Tunisians tion Carthage to obtain ) ; had but permission till relig then , ious been and for political a systematic barrier , prejudice , and excavation therefore ( on the on every part the app site of lica the of
-Hence either that cit of no y art had European or been of science met museum either belong could by ing a positive to boast the once of or any - b famous y important an evasive North remains African refusal , .
republic excavate . from But the having Basha , succeeded of Tunis in obtaining desire was the to permission employ it for to
the discovered public benefit to the , trustees and to of hand the over British , my the Museum antiquities . " that The may English be lied
Government entertained the proposal , and Dr . Davis was supp with But funds here and we de have spatche to notice d to Carthage a detail . of the arrangement which Davis did not
ing empowered most the anti historical quarians to expend sites will money of regard Car on thage excavations as mistaken ; he went for . the Dr to . purpose dig up curiosities of certif go y-
for the British Museum . The consequence was , that during the trenches process of if his they labors he no constantl promise y of relinqui yielding shed mosaics the most or inscri interesting ptions
or small , articles gave capable of transfer . By this sacrifice of the larger , to the lesser object have , the been story o £ his two labors thousand is less interesting of ruin than and
repeated much it might of otherwise a spoliation technicall by valuable Romans . , or For Vandals removable , and nature Arab years s . , have not , left y
Dr . Davis settled himself in a small cottage which a Maltese had called Eshuttriht in the
builtat a village Dowar , standing g in middle 1857 , of on the a broiling plain of day Carthage in the earl ; and y part here of it March was that . The we village saw him is
granite ' ' irregular , columns mass , fragments formerl of hovels adorned , of chiefl bas y - built reliefs of les , limbs ancient and , struc and materials tures other . of portions Broken
of statueswhich y temp magnificence , are now degraded to fraternise with mud , rotten timber , and common , field-stones . " It was among the very rascally inhahis laborersand the
first bitants day of , this while village he was that . conversing he had individual to find with who them held , the his ; g horse irths of very his
saddle were stolen ; and the swore that by everything he had no sacred knowled —ay ge , and of the even thief by the ! On head perceivin of the g Prop thi het s new
source of difficulty , Dr . Davis picked out the most active and intelof the whole
li and gent op , ened and negotiations also the most by which roguish , this looking man was , made chief of part the y , ,
340 Notices Of Books.
340 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1861, page 340, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071861/page/52/
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