The Greeley tribune., 1907-04-04
1T MAY Be TO LIE IN THE BOSOM Or
The ADRlATiC.

| The Famous h' ,p,.
Toll on Oceans Depths
of ola Port Roy"l-Ths
Cite. of the Worih.
It,s believed by many that Venice
Ia sinkiur into the Adriatic ana tna'
she gradually will disappear beneath
the wo,ars OF the great lagoon from
r.,.,. ~ nalace crowned islands
arise Other cities have gone una,
way before her, and ships now san
over spols which were once teernihs
with populous life. u,,o
| A. the entrance to the harbor OF King
| ston jamaica. the original city OF Port
Royal lies iathoms deep beneath tne
blue and sunlIt waters OF the Carp
Noon sao , narrow strip of land, on
wb,n,, ,re small settlement ana
fort ,s sll that is left OF what was
once Tho richest and wickedest town IN
tho west indies. 1t was the resort OF
pirates. who rested there from tne,r
depredatlons and made the city ND
eous with their revelry. But these pi-
rates brour hi great stores of their loot to
the city. and its commerce grew ana
flour,shel Palaces and churches were
built pirate often striving by rich
endowment of church to square MS
accounts with heaven.
Throurhout the greater part or the
seyenteenth century no town IN the
western world was SO magnificent as
to its buildings or so luxurious as to Its
habits as Port Royal. Then one day In
1892 the anger of the Lord shook the
island OF Jamaica, and the greater part
Of Port ROYAL sank beneath the sea,
CARRYING with 1t hundreds Of Its In
| hahitants Towers, churches, palaces
and forts went down, many Of them
not tumbling in ruins by the shock.
but sinking bodily beneath the waves.
On bright day, sailing over the
spot where Port Royal once stood, one
can look far down through the clear
water and see the remains of the city
still standing there on the ocean bot
tom. with fishes swimming about
among its towers and great tropical
seaweeds waving from its sunken
walls.
The negroes of Jamaica-and some
white people, too-will tell you that be-
fore a storm the sunken bell Of the
great cathedral which went down with
the city on that awful day in 1892 can
be heard distinctly tolling below the
waves. ruug as warning by the
ghostly hands of the spirits Of depart
ed buccaneers which haunt the subma-
rine city. People who do not believe In
ghosts, but think they have heard the
tolling of the bell, say the explanation
Is that when the city sunk the great
bell of the cathedral was not thrown
from its place, but still hangs as 1t
originally did. The coming storm be-
fore it reaches Jamaica stirs up the
waters of the Caribbean and sends in
upon the shore deep waves, which roll
through the sunken city and set the
bell llHstolling. 49,.
Another sunken city OF renown /.
Baiae. that splendid resort on the Ital
ian coast where Nero and Caligula
"reveled and drank deep" A strag
Cling village and heaps of marble ruins
still stand upon the shore and bear the
name of Baiae, but the greater part OF
the city lies beneath the waters of the
Mediterranean, and tourists from Ma,
pies go out there to gaze down into the
waters and try to catch glimpse of
the submerged city.
The resort of all the wealthy mobiles
of Rome when Rome was mistress of
the world, Baiae was marvel Of lux.
urious splendor. Palace after palace
was built on the shore, and architects
designed magnificent structures ex
tending out into the sea.
When Rome decayed and the Goths
ravaged Italy, Baiae was sacked by
the invaders. Soon after the city be
gan to sink. First the buildings which
had their foundation in the water sub
sided beneath the waves, and then
the sea made an attack on the land
Gradually the shore line receded, and
the Mediterranean flowed through the
streets where Hadrian had driven his
imperial chariot and Horace had walk.
ed thinking Of his next poem.
These promontories, crowned with
grand towers and gorgeous palaces,
were undermined and toppled into the
deep until at last the major part of
the splendid city was submerged. Its
disappearance was not sudden. like
that of Port Royal, and due to some
convulsion of nature, but Baiae went
down to its death gradually, as Venice
is said to be going.
In Holland the subsistence of the
land has brought 1t about that many
towns once populous are now covered
BY the sea. The old Roman camp at
hrittenburg, after sinking beneath the
waves, emerged again in 1920, only to
disappear, and it's remains now lie in
deep water opposite the town of Kat.
wijk. The original Katwijk itself now
Is beneath the waters, as also are the
original towns of scheveningen, Dom.
/ burg and Epmond Tn foot n