The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-01-28

continually being discovered by the will lagers. The number of ancient sites discovered by Mir Goshkevitch during his excursion is fifteen. The general character of these sites may be given
 as follows: Each one is situated on the
 steep bank of the river, which forms a natural defence against surprise at 'tacks, and the other three sides are sur
 rounded by ramparts in a good state of
 preservation, with the ruins of dwelling places within the walls. One of the most interesting of these sites is called PropaStnoe and is situated on the edge of the ravine of the same name near the
 monastery of Bisukov Here many an- cient Greek vessels were found, and
 both here and on the banks of the
 Bug were found pieces of money of the time of Emperor Fheodosius the Great, who reigned near the end of the fourth century. In the village of KisliakovKa evident traces were discovered of hn ancient Greek settlement, and here the curator discovered a. head of a statue | in a good state of preservation. Here, 1 also, the peasants a short time ago un- earthed, splendid Greek statue, but, being ignorant of it's great value, they actually destroyed it, although they sell l to the first buyer the coins they find at the ancient site of Olbia, and many private persons in those parts have splendid numismatic collections of Scy-
 thian and other periods
 Besides the cursory examination of these sites five tumuli were opened
 two on the bank of the Dnieper and l three near the village of Arkhanjelskoe, | in the parish of Alexandrova. Four of 1 these tumuli proved to be the graves of unimportant chieftains, there being
 nothing except the skeletons within; but
 the fifth, which was near the well known Borysthenian burying ground, l contained Ia vault like chamber, faced l with oak blocks, and floor that had been made white with cement or lime.
 A skeleton was lying on a stone slab
 with extended arm bones, and on the
 wrist "a bracelet of pure gold. Around l the neck were four finely worked gold and amber necklaces, and near the
 remains of a dark red color, while at l the hip bone was kind of knife or
 sword Thirty bone arrows in a quiver,
 as we'll as a crysto or bow case, were near the skull, but the culver crumbled dWdy UlB eApOSuIt llO dhI. lle ShClCtcii
 was also so decayed that it crumbled to dust on being touched Judging from
 the manner of the intermenlt and the
 things found, MT. Goshkevftch thinks 1t belongs to the Scythian period. In a lravine opening up into the valley of
 the Borysthenes Onieper) a, consider | able number of mammoth bones were discovered, but they were only partially dug out of Ithe ground last month, and so they will remain until next year, | when it is believed that the government will more extensively examine the diff ferent ancient sites in the provinces of
 Kherson and Taurida. Owing to the I lateness of the season, the curator was
 not able to examine the many ruins and sites of ancient settlements which
 are known to exist beyond the monas- tery of BZioukova, although he brought away from there to the Kherson museum
 a massive piece of statuary having on
 it's two sides crosses and cypress leaves
 as well as a bunch of "prisob." This
 piece of work is believed to belong tc 1 the period when the Genoese colonies
 were in a tlourishing state on the
 shores of the Black Sea.-Odessa Cor. respondence London Times.