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HERCULANEUM WONDERS.

TREASURES OF 2,000 YEARS AGO.

BEAUTIFUL BURIED BUILDING.

ÉVE OF IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES.

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With the return of fine weather In Pomp-which was buried by archeologists are again probing burning cinders, while Hercula- with renewed energy into the mys- noum was emothered

days teries of the past, after the winter | later by a stream of liquid mud- intermission.

it is very rare to find any wooden Nowhere have excavations been objects, the whole city was resumed with greater energy than burned to the ground before being in Herculaneum. Professor Majuri buried.

Blatusites Of Gods, and his assistants have the feeling that they are at the eve of import clade aumber of statuettes of Other Anda in this building in ant discoveries and are pushing the gods and goddesses including * work of exploration on with the marble one of Paris about two and greatest speed consistent with the delicacy of the task.

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Professor Majuri believes that the building was some sort of s public office.

ball feet high several bronze amphora, large quantities of pot- tery, and many household imple- The rainy months have been ements of various kinds. ployed in the rough work of re. moving some 40 feet of solidified volcanic mud over a wide ares, laying bare the so-called "arch ological stratum,' which eneraos the ruins of the ancient Roman city. Now that the sun is shining. the finer work of delicately explor ing this stratum inch by inch is about to begin.

He is led to this

belief by the size of the edifice and

the elaborateness of its decora the ones usually found in private tions, which are far superior to dwellings in Roman tower. This point, however, will probably be settled definitely in the near future, when the excavation of the whole building is completed. Pos- sibly it may have been the Customs House, or something of that sort, as it is in the part of the city nearest the harbour.

The excavation was immediately continued to free one façade of building and a beautiful portal was discovered, the exquisite propor tions and delicate workmanship of which confirmed all previous esti- mates as to the value of the find.

Unfortunately work had to be The excavators are gradually susponded at this point, as the approaching the buildings of the whole building threatened to col modern town of Resina, under the lapse. Several tunnels bored first of which it is believed that through the subsoil in the immedi- the "Decumanus Major," or main ate vicinity in. Bourbon times had street of the ancient city, lies. so weakened its foundations that This belief, naturally, whets the it was considered dangerous to re- eagerness of the excavators, as it move any more of the volcanie'mud is impossible to tell what may not which had supported the walls for be found when this street is to many centuries.

The intervening time

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reached.

Just at présent, the excavations

ployed in filling in all tunnele in are all in a portion of the city the immediate neighbourhood, in which, judging by the poor nature trengthening the foundations, and of the houses, was chiefly inhabited in removing the thick crust of soli by sailors, dockers, and the like. dified mud from over the whole of the area occupied by the building. This work was performed so quick Is that about 200,000 cubic feet of

volcanic matter was removed in three months and it is now possible to approach the building from all

sides.

U-Shaped Structure.

Evicting Townspeople,

When the houses of Reeins are reached they will be torn town. A swampy tract of land between the present excavations and the bea has been filled in with materials ex- tracted from the excavatione. It

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