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RUINS OF CARTHAGE.
Buried Punic and Roman Cities.
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1923.
THE HARBOURS.
was
more
this circular harbour where the strip
At the furthest point before reaching the sez is the long rectangular lagoon, which was the commercial harbour of the Carthaginians, with its access to It is das to the energy and ia-
the ses at the farthest end. It itiative of private enthusiasts that was through this harbour that the the question of the fate of the ruins warships came in order to reach of ancient Carthage has lately, the circular harbour of the war been brought so prominently be-navy, to be seen in the middle fire the French public, writes the distance. This harbour Paris correspondent of the fiber-known as Cothen. It was sur- er. The site is, of course, in the rounded by large docks, over 16it. French Protectorate of Eunis, and wide, and it could hold 220 ships, there are really two questions, though its atei was not Oas concerns such remains than two acres. In its centre can al present be seen abova was the circular island of the 6th Feb. Mlles, Havre, Liverpool & Glasgow, ground, and a saving of them Arsenal, from which the admiral 20th Feb. Uenos Miles, Livorpion & Glasgow. from the depredations alika ofirre- could inspect his whole feet, and 4th Mar. Miles, Havre, Liverpool & Glasgow.sponsible pilferers, and of builders, this island can be distinguished whaare using the historic stones in the picture. Da the far PACIFIC SERVICE
for modern villas and driving sida of new roads across what is lefi of important buildings. The other is the provision of funds to enshia of land and see wall which en- closed it, and it was through this further excavation to be carried i
sex wall that the besiegel Car- OD.
thaginiana drove a breach in that At present nearly all this work 1st desperate effort to cut away is being done at the expense of through to the sen for their private persons. Father Dalattre
imprisoned triremestriremes has been engaged upon it foro make ropes for which their nearly fifty years and basenrich-
women had given even the hair ed the local museum with many from their heads. treasure", especially of the
What a picture of the Titanic Christian period. Dr. Carton has struggle between the two rivals: made discoseries of hardly less for the control of the Mediter importance, and bath of these ranean is called up by these har devated workers would welcome ours? The recent discovery of any offers of help or co-operation. an altar and the heaped-up bones Perhaps Lord Carnarvon's won of new-born childred suggest what derful find in Earpt will spur pitiless rites inspired that will to some imagination in France or
power which made Hannibal elsewhere to enter a field which arch his armies and his war might offer badly less interes-elephants through Spain to Italy, icg & reward.
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Goldsmiths Company's Gift
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ferry them across the Rhone and guide them through the passes of the Alps. Even earlier memories, which perhaps go back to Dido,. are stirred by Dr. Carton's dis no doubt the first settlers grouped covery of the spring around which
their huts: while the organising
For the complete burniaz and destruction with which Rome avenged herself on her fosily Canquared enemy in 146 8.C, and the desolation in which the whole site was orderel to remain for twenty-five years, have laid over its foundations. and its cellars &
the ruins of the great amphi- layer of ashes and debris, which bas been as completely protective theatre and the stadium, the
the lava of Vesuvius was to basilica of St. Cyprian, the Byzan Pampeli; and there are no doubtine baths of Theodora, and, above wondertul treasures of the
Two years ago the Goldsmiths Company presented to the British Museum a remarkable series of 260 gold cuina, chiety English, ranging from the time of Edward 111. to the Commonwealth. The Court of the Company has now made & further gift, representing the gold coinage issued by the English kings for their Joraicions Phoenician art of Punic Carthage in France during the fourteenthil intact below this Inger.
and feenth centuries.
British Museum.
These
A ROMAN CITY.
might of Rome is represented by
brought the water for those baths all, th mighty aqueduct which
from the hills of the interior, and the great reservoirs which stored it.
There is indeed, good reason But this is not all. Upon the ashes of the Carthage of Hanoi. for the demand that remains, bil and Hamilcas there was which tell of such a history, shail built a later Raman city, which, at least not be destroyed. baca ne one of the richest in the Empire and a Christian times important that several
HIS FIRST CHARITIES.
coins are not only among the finest products of the goldsmith's art of the time; they are, with sexis, the only material records which this country can possess of a most important and romantic phase of English bistory. The coins, which come from the cabinet of the chief living authority on the subject was yo had passed into the hands of Synads met there and it was the Messrs. Spink and Soo, whe birthplace of
more than one offered the first choice to the beress. This Roman city was "I hope my little Tommy bas eventually destroyed by the tak to heart mamma's talk of It seemed essential that the Arabs in A.D. 633 and it is its last night about charity and ose. more important pieces should be remains that the existing ex-fulness," said a fond mother."How
bat secured:
their excessive cavations have chiede revealed. I many acts of kindness has he | rarity-some being unique. some These espacially rich in dane? How many hearts has my only known by a single other Byzantine art, for Belisarius Tommy made grateful and glad?" specimen in the Fatis casinet. covered the city for Justinian "I've done a whole lot of good." and all of them scarce-meant from the Vandals. who had Tommy replied. "I gaze your the expenditure of a considerable plundered it and established s new hat to a bregst woman, and sum. The Goldsmiths' Company line of kings there; and it was a gave cook's show to a little girl have once more come to the Byzanti e city that it remained in the strast and pa's evening suit rescue, an eighteen gold pieces, uni the Arabs eventually spread that he hardly ever wears to a which were up Lill now over it the final layer of sh's poor lame botlace seller." unrepresented in the British and destruction. Museum, have been purchased by them and offered to and grateful ly accepted by the Trustees.
Among the new coins there may
Ara
FIEUZAL GLASSES.
Out of doors there is nothis p
In the Panic days it is believed that there was a wall across the neck of the peninsula. and that within 1 were the villag be seen the first. "Guiennois, and gardens of the rich and struck for Guienne when, by the the Belds which supplied the Treaty of Bretigny in 1960. Ed-city with corn. This city was restful and comfortable for be ward III renounced the title of clustered round the harbours, and eyes as the light reflected from King of France (a brilliantly pre-may be said to have occupied all green fields and trees-the absorp served coin with the figure of the the space which is visible in the ton of the ultra-violet and orange king in full armour); the "Demi-photograph between the spectator rays by the chlorophyll of the Hardi of Richard II, with bis and the sea. In the foreground leaves; hence the introduction of portrait: the second issue of the is one of the fex existing cuins of Freuzal Glass, sellowish green in "Moutun" by Henry V. (of all the Punic period, and the line of colour, which is produced in varieties of which but one other the arch in these tombs will at several shades, and lenses made specimen is known); and the once suzgest a kinship with the of this may be worn as a protec unique "Pavilion," OFFICA
discoveries at Myced 50. The tion by over-sensitive eyes where Figeac, in Quercy, by the Black picture is taken from the hill of it is desirable to tone down ex- Byrsa, which was once the citadel. cassive light and glare. Fieutil Across the Gulf of Tunis is seen lenses of any prescription in the famous Two-Horned Moun- either regular or Toric forms are tain, between the horns of which manufactured by The Hongkong the moon is described as rising in Optical Co successors to Clark "Salammbo"-as error on the & Co., manufacturing sad refract- part of Flaubert, for the moon ing opticians, 53, Queen's Road bas never risen 80.
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