Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-04-20

sculpture, and giving directions for the con
tunuailon OF the work, noise of horsemer
was heard. and presently Add ur-rahman
| followed by his tribe, appeared On the edge
| OF the trench. As soon as the two Arabs
had reached the tents, and published the
wonders they had seen, every one mounted
his mare and rode 10 the mound, to satisfy
himself of the truth of these inconceivable
reports. When they beheld the head they
all cried together,-.There is no god bu,
God, and Mehammed is his Prophet Ii
was sometime before the sllelkh could be
prevailed upon To descend into the pit, and
convince himself that the image he saw
was of stone. This is not the work OF
mems hands, cried he, but of those inf
del giants of whom the Prophet, peace be
with him! has said that they were higher
than the tallest date tree; this is one of the
idols which Noah, peace be with him
cursed before the food" In this opinion.
tn result of careful examination, all the
bystanders concurred.
Our second extract is, as we have said.
from the pen of the reviewer.
'Bnt there were appearances which came to
light, during the operations about the centre of the
mound even still more surprising. There was a
kind of succession in the strata of remains, which,
without requiring the incalculable periods of our ge-
oogists, showed an antiquity which may well per-
pick the historical inquirer. Above the buried re-
mains of the Ninevite palace, some people-a peo-
pie by every indication of great antiquity-had
formed their burial place. The excavators had to
dig through layer of tombs, to dispIace the re.
mains of the dead, which they did with great
The tombs were not hastily piled sepulchres of
rowing tribe-they were regularly formed of bricks
carefully joined but without mortar: some covered
with slabs of alabaster; others were large earthen
sarcophag covered with slabs. Parts OF a skeleton,
and some of the bones, appeared entire on opening
one ofthe tombs, but crumbled into dust on the at
tempt TO remove them. In the first of these tombs
were likewise of reddish clay and beads, and
small ornaments belonging to necklace. Besides
there was a cylinder representing king i'll his
chariot hunting the wild bull, copper ornament
two silver bracelets and pin for the hair 1t
seemed that the body must have been that of a
female. In other tombS were found vases of green
pottery, copper mirrors, lustra spoons and various
ornaments. The whole of the ornaments were in
character and form, Egyptian. Five feet below
this cemetry appeared the remains of building
but of a building in ruins The walls of unbaked
bricks. could still be traced ; but the slabs which
had lined them, covered with has reliefs and nscrps
manifest intention of removing them to some 9TH
er place-it would seem of empyng them for some
ncighbo ing building. The cata-
comb of one age must be peced to arrive at the
palace or temple of another; one generation makes
its graves, seemingly unconscious that far below
are the dwellings of generation much more an
Gent OF course, and forgotten. Mr.. Layard modest
~ contents himself with suggesting the questions
What race occupied the country after the destruc
ton of the Assyrinn palace? At what period
were these tombs made? What antiquity does
their presence assign to the building beneath them?
One thing seems cIear-that they neither Per-
sian Greek: they belong to anterior period,
when there 4 close connection between the in
habitants of this part of Assyria and Egypt. These
problems must yet await their answer, and can on
! be answered if the nscriptions-as yet but in
distinctly read, and, if interpreted at all, still more
indistnctly nterpreted-sfIaIl render up their Sc
crets'
The reading of these inscriptions will give work
to an EIihu Burritt.
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