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What this excavation was intended for I could nowise imagine, unless it were the very pit in which Longfellow bids the "Dead Past bury its Dead," and Whitnash, of all places in the world, were going to avail itself of our poet's suggestion.

After many minutes of silent but most vigorous excavation we joyfully decided that one of these very logs had come into our possession.

The inn is a plain structure of the usual stone-work of the hillside towns, and the stable, extending backward from the house proper, is largely an excavation in the rock.

The process of excavation extended through ten centuries from the time of Asoka; and the interiors as well as the façades were highly ornamented with sculptures.

Had not this excavation been made, one third of the column (lower part) would not be seen.

The streets and houses here remain entire, the roofs of the houses excepted, which fell in by the effect of the excavation; so that you here behold a Roman city nearly in the exact state it was hi when it was buried under the ashes of Vesuvius, during its first eruption in the year 79 of the Christian era.

Most of the houses seem to have had two stories; the roofs fell in of course by the act of excavation, but the columns remain entire.

In this temple at the time of the first excavation were found all the instruments of sacrifice and other things appertaining to the worship of that Goddess.

As I have before remarked, all the valuables and utensils of all sorts found here have been removed to Portici; it is a great pity that everything could not be left in Pompeii in the exact situation in which it was found on its first discovery at the excavation.

The greatest part of these buildings are choaked up and covered with earth, since it is by excavation alone that what does appear was brought to light.

It was by excavation that a man discovered a large hall wherein he found the nine beautiful statues of the Muses, which now adorn the Museum of the Vatican; and no doubt if the Roman government would recommence the excavations many more valuables might be found.

In my account of my trip made in 1872, published in Scribner's (now Century) Magazine for June, 1873, I say, concerning this change: "A large excavation remained; and a seething, bubbling mass of mud, with several tree-tops swaying to and fro in the midst, told how terrible and how effectual must have been the explosions which produced such devastation.

He, stood for a full minute staring into its interior, then he cried, hoarsely, "Jack!" Berg was on his feet in an instant; he strode to the excavation and bent over it.

It therefore follows that this excavation practically occupies the whole of that part of Back Cup island which appears above water.

The explosion produced an excavation measuring fully a cubic yard.

How many times I seem to see it swept against the rocks in the tunnel into a creek, or some excavation.

By skirting the rocks towards the east, to the side which cannot be approached from the sea on account of the reefs and which is not likely to be watched, I reach a narrow excavation about two hundred and twenty-five yards from where the point of the coast extends towards the northwest.

This being likewise met with a reluctant but unmistakable refusal, the work of excavation was commenced.

"Before this it was covered with trees of twelve inches diameter, and round the base was an excavation of five feet depth and width.

An excavation near the centre of the square, partially filled with dirt previously to the exodus to Provo, marks the spot where the Temple is to rise.

Franciscan Awatovi: the excavation and conjectural reconstruction of a 17th century Spanish mission establishment at a Hopi Indian town in northeastern Arizona.

KEITH C. The excavation of Medinet Habu.

Cavern it is not, though the entrance is beneath a low, natural archthe basin within being open to the heavens, and the place resembling an artificial excavation made to shelter boats.

We did not know, exactly, where the highest point had been; but as we came on toward the little walled-in excavation which seemed such a small mark to aim at, and one which we might so easily fail to hit after all, we saw how behind us rose the green bosom of the field against the sky, and how, day by day, we got less of the great town within our view as we settled down upon our side of the ridge.