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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 341
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The Excavations " Carthage At Carthage A...
workmenand "bcmnd to keep the rest in order . For soine little timDrD , avis _retiirned from Dowar Eshutt every nightand slept
e . , at Tunisbut he did not find this answer , for a reason which is sufficientl , y amusing to any one who has once visited that extremely
• scandalous and quarrelsome city , where all the Europeans seem menced ( occu 1856 pied , ) di and in gging by tearing , the " says 1 each 6 th the my other excavator number ' s characters , of " on laborers the to p 11 ieces th had . of increased November h " We not com to - ,
twent active y , -five yet . stead I found y workmen the Arab . But s very thoug docile h p , artiall and thoug y satisfied with very menI was far from being satisfied with the result of the work . Every my day , I was in hopes of finding something ; likewise but day after day
passed without bringing anything to light . I was subjected to lation great of mortifications Tunis , what who discoveries ever from y evening a certain had on my portion made return This to the the question European city made popu i not t a -
po put int from to _aslc motive me ' s of curiosity , I or from any . particular interest was that they took in antiquarian researches ; ifc "was simp discovered ly to ascertain at
whether their prediction that nothing could be Carperfectl thage was y chimerical correct . , These and individuals looked upon actuated regarded me as b my a deluded undertaking malice being as to .
whom satisfaction There were my want " others We of can , success also answer , who appeared for were it that to g this ive no amiable ordinary y pure aspect degree of , the of
. Europeans Dr . Davis of Tunis having is taken not an up exaggerated his residence picture on ! the series plain of , _coiild
rimental devote days had every trenches cleared hour , to he thre his soon e work arched came ; and or upon having vaulted solid opened masonry chambers a , and measuring in a expe few
h about loft twenty doors - . two He feet found by ten nothing , and in communicating them but a marble with , each hand other , and y
a of y few the terra-cotta was lamp ab s of oveground no parti , cul and ar experience beauty . A taug slig ht ht him portion that masonry
_whenever ruins are visible aboveground , they are , with few exceptionsto be ascribed to Roman Carthage . Pie also , in the course
to of the his , last digg Punic ings , came war , have to the a conclusion depth of nearl that y Phoenician twenty feet ruins of , e prior arth foot
upon where them no preventiv , allowin e g cause an average exists . increase of one researches per would _centiiry be ,
surprised Readers if who they are could not realize used to the anti dep qu th arian at which ancient cities come to be buried . Every now and then some relic of ancient merchant
Londinium turns up in the bottom-most cellar of a City ' s house Ludgate ; or brin the g to menders light a of bit gas of mosaic and water pavement pipes floor . in of The Cli the eapside Forum Basilica or of
Julia Rome Phocius look lies of s like iii which a the sort the square of inscri pit floor , the tion of white never a reservoir marble could be , and discovered the Column until of it p
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Notices Of Books. 341
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 341
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1861, page 341, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071861/page/53/
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