Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-18
WONDERS OF NORTHERN AFRICA
Frank Edward Johnson's Lecture Gives His Townsmen Rare Treat-Town Hall Has Crowd of 1900 to Hear Re turning Traveller Tell of His Discoveries-Over 200 Views Shown.

city was destroyed by order of the Romans. Thus the Carthagenians were literally swept from the face of the earth. What is known about them is due to excavations and untiring la borS of a religious brotherhood.
 Their women were extremely beauti- full and noble of feature. Their silks and brocades were of a finer quality than those woven today. and their dyes were renowned.
 The New Carthage.
 At first the Romans occupied a nar- row strip of land along the coast, and in a few years a new Carthage sprane up on the site of the earlier city Let us pass over $50 years and see what A network of roads were kept up al government expense. As far as it has been possible to ascertain the roads were built much like the macadamized roads of todIy.
 Patterned After Rome.
 Northern Africa of the Roman occu- patton and northern Africa of today are widely different. Never has there been known such a remarkable system of irrigation, and irrigation means az ricu1tural weolth. The vital question that faced the Romans was the ques- tion of water. They mastered the wa ter and made it So their bidding. Wa ter was transmitted through a stone aqueduct over fifty miles in length and having a capacity of eight million gallons a day. Carthage also had oth- CT water supplies.
 Rome was the ideal city. to be like it, as nearly as possible, seems to have been the dream of the cities of north ern Africa Hence they resemblec each other to some degree.
 AmPhitheatre for so,o00.
 Among the architectural wonders seen is an amphitheatre nearly as large as the Coliseum in Rome and said tc have a seating capacity of 8O,0oO per sons.
 Mosaics Preserved in Desert Sands.
 Tunisia has the most remarkable mosaics so far unearthed, they having been preserved by the shifting sands of the Sahara The mosaics were made of tiny rectangular bits of stone whose top surface had been colored and in some cases the cubes were oi colored stone. marble, etc. They form ed colored designs for the floors o1 temples, theatres, private houses and often for stables.
 After centuries came the downfall oi Roman rule in northern Africa.
 MT. Johnson here spoke of the un- known ruins of Tyhni and gave an in- teresting description of a superb mo- saic which he had the fortune to see unearthed.
 After his lecture he described in ar entertaining way a number of views of towns and other places which he has visited in northern Africa
 MT. Johnson exhibited over 200 views taken in the course of his travels, many of them finely colored, and all giving an excellent idea of the little known regions into which his travels and ex- plorations had led him. Included with them were pictures of his faithful ser wants and his handsome horse on which he had ridden over 1, 900 miles.
 There were views of the ruins of cities, of the curious cave dwellings of the Troglodytes. caravans of camels desert scenes. walled cities. oases, and much else that brought vividly before his townsmen the wonders that this Norwich scientist has seen and which have brought him recognition before the scientific societies of the United States and Europe.
 He concluded his address admist a hearty burst of applause. Upon motion of General William A. Aiken. Mir Johnson was given a standing vote of thanks.
 The patronesses had commissioned the Geduldig greenhouses to furnish