Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1873-01-01
The Diggers Among Old Ruins and
and Their Discoveries The Wonders
Of Arizona.

The diggeTs among the old ruins of
dead empires have been and are ma
king many wonderful and important
discoveries. Among the latest and
most interesting of these ancient rel
les recently unearthed are those Of
glorious old Homer's strong-walled
city of Troy by DR.. Sehieimsnn, as
detailed in his fascinating report, pub
lished in last Saturdays Herald. The
| learned Doctor, at the bottom Of the
debris everything the city, the aeeu-
mutations of three thousand years,
finds the evidences Of high eiviliza-
tion among the relics of ancient Troy,
and thence, in the different strata up
ward, from one occupation of the city
to another, he finds, from the evidence
of the artificial remains therein, a
steady decline from civilization to-
wards baTbarism. As 3 geological
historian his record of the ruins of
| Troy establishes his reputation, and
his Herald report is worthy the posi-
ton of an explanatory appendix to
] the "Iliad.n At the same time the
diggers among the ruins Of the island
of Cyprus, the Temple of Diana, an
eient Jerusalem-nearly q hundred
| feet under the streets of the present
eity-and likewise among the ruins of
| Moab and among the wonderful treas
ures unearthed in Assyria, on the I'll
girls and the Euphrates, are filling up
| the blanks in the history of empires
and people passed away, and back to
/ the deluge, are confirming the records
of the Old Testament.
And these historical ruins of three,
/ four or five thousand years are not
confined to the Old Word. Central
and South America there are the re-
mains of an ancient civilization, da-
/ tinfi further back, perhaps, than that
of Rome or Carthage; and there still
remain in Mexica some fragments of
ancient temples whose history had
been lost IN tradition in the time of
| COrtez. North of Mexico and south
of Greenland no evidences have yet
been discovered of the existence any
where, at any time, Of higher civili-
zation lhan that of the AZtecs anteri-
or to Columbus; and these Aztec re-
mains are confined to Western Texas,
/ New Mexico, Colorado, Southern
Utah and Arizona. They indicate a
q state of civilization like that of the
Aztecs in Mexico as Cortez found
/ them, and the tradition is general
among the Mexican aborgines at this
day that their ancestors in great mi
| grafton came down to Mexico from
/ the North. Fremont, Albert, Emory,
/ Sitgreaves and other government eX.
plorers of our vast acquisitions from
/ Mexico have given US their sketches
and descriptions of numerous ruins of
old Aztec temples and dwellings in
/ New Mexico and Arizona, and of their
| irrigating canals and their pottery
| They indicate a civilization as low as
4 the lowest of DR.. Sehliemann's de-
seending scale of Troy, though far
above any advances Of the mound
/ builders of our Northwestern States
We have a report, however, from
San Francisco that the ruins of a
great city have recently been STUN
bled upon by some prospecting miners
/ in Northeastern Arizona, and that
these ruins tell of prosperous COM
munity that must have been destroy
/ ed or transferred farther south thoGs-
ands of years ago. 1t is thought so
from the fact that deep canyon near
the heart of the city has been made
by the winter washidg of that region,
which has required at least thousand
years of those washings to cut thro'
the rocks to its present depth This
whole report, however, may be 3
California esnard, though we conf
IDENTIFY expect from Captain Wheeler's
exploring expedition in Arizona and
Colorado discoveries more interesting
to Americans thus even the finding
of the eneircling wall and inside relies
of ancient Troy.-Nel0 York Herald.