The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-05-07

Great bAecgs 90 marble Y:eEs@ 70
nrokan statues / could see TIE sE1fs*
aales aoon which tie Komas~ ore
"a their sacrifices. and beyond them
49,. homes ~ the city The columns
n.~tas me wer. a. hig around -
hogxhesd and they rose above Use l.
- height of b four-SfoTy mouse InFH
w.re made In blocks. each of Whtef
must have weighed many toiss Tnss
m-re probably ch4slsd out on Lac
ground but how thew we're raise
- hirh without the aid NJ m"3er.
machinery e@faiaot l"*'
temple had twelve columns IN from
Of II. and twenty-five pillars Of th"~f
enormous proportions on IN" platform
boye-
The Arch of T~raEan-
At the entrance Of the Nio DveuHl
ans Maximus now stands the Remain
IF the Arch q Tratan. The CITY So
have said. was founded by TrajA4
and This arch II IL spiendld monnm"1t
80 his memory. Il must be eighty -
one hundred feet ia height II - q
/ sandstone. with columns az marble 4
has aged bg The weather. Z IS ih'
sun shone UPON IL this morning 4
took on the color IF old gold. max
| ing n great fyamc standing Oh
| against the blue sky, The arch IA
three entrances. two at the side
for foot passengers and one In tn
| cente for carriages The road fhrousf
the central arch has been cut dec
by the chariot wheels.
Birds were lying about through
this arch As | visited il TO-DAY. and
looking beyond il, over the plain.
could see the black tents OF the Be
dOuins with the sheep feeding near
them. They were grazing among tht
heads Of ruined columns and 81
land covering that part OF Timgao
which has not Yet been excaVatef
In the Timsad Museum.
All the relics found at TImgad arr
Kept in the museums here. and tnf
collection already ives live pictures
Of the old Roman DAYS. Some Of tht
rooms are walled with mosaics, and
they contain enough b~roken-noseG
statues 10 people a town. There arr
some cases filed with gold coins and
others containing lewelry Of gold
some Of which is set with precious
stones. There are rouge pots like those
lscover at Pompeii, and there are
finger rings Of gold. There are sur
gicaI Instruments. including pincer>
and fOrcepS of steel, beautifully made
knives Of various kinds, and needle>
Of all sizes. There are Roman lamps
of bronze and of clay. There are
bronze handles of vases, and beautt-
full pieces and vessels Of iridescent
glass. Altogether the collection j.
Wonderful: but it IS hut up here
away off in the heart of North Africa.
twenty-five miles from the nearest
railroad, 50 that few people even be
hold it.
During my stay | have photographs
ed some of the ruins and have meas
uTeG many Of the columns and build
ingS. | have also talked with the d.
rector OF the excavations. He tells
me that the work OF ~uncoVcring the
city is to go steadily on. but that tn
present appropriation of only abou,
$4,000 is not enough 70 hurry the
work. The e~xcavating is carefully
done, and in the remaining two
thirds of the city yet to be uncover
ed many treasures must lie. Their"
must be more or less gold and pre-
cious stones and it may be also the
remains OF beautiful statues. moSaics
and relics which will throw a new
light on Roman North Africa.
n Land of Roman Ruins.
There are relics Of the Romans
scattered all over this part of the
world. Nearly every town in Algeria
of any size has more or less OF
them. | " seen the hand Of DID
Rome in nearly every place | have
been. 1t has left its marks aboL.
Algiers, Oran and Tlemcen. The lat
ter city was ancient Pomaria, and
1t shows the remains OF a great RO-
man a%queduct. I came across the I'D
Roman wall many times While ex-
ploring Algiers, and not far from
here is Constantine, which was NAM
ed after Constantine the emperor Of
Rome, which has more or less ruins
about it.
In LambeSe.
LambeSe, about twenty miles east
of here. was built by the Romans
A. d. 125 to form the headquarters
of the Third Augustan Legion. and
recent explorations show hat it was
a large Roman camp. The ruined
arches Of the gates outside the city
show that it covered several miles,
and in its center is . building Of
stone ninety-tWo feet long and seven
ty-twO feet wide. and as nigh as a
four-stOry house. The facade of mis-
structure has a peristyle, with hand-
some COrinthian columns.
Near it is a temple which was
built during the reign of Marcus Au-
relius, and also a great arch put up
are ruins of baths at LambeSe, from
which have been taken beautiful mo-
half an acre and in one of the forums
one of which measured more than
half II acre, and in one of the forums
was a great temple surrounded by Il
cOlOnnade.
ON the site of Lambese the French
have now built an enormous barracks
for such soldiers as they send TO Ar
RIGA for correction, and as rode by
| passed several companies Of French
troops going through their evolutions
on the site of the old camp, just as
the Roman soldiers did in that sanc
place more than seventeen hundred
years ago.
FRANK G.. CARPENTER.