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An Exhumed City

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Parent Issue
Day
2
Month
June
Year
1865
Copyright
Public Domain
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A most singular dixcovery bas been made on the Freuch coast, near tho moüth of the Garonne. A town bas been discovered biiriod in the sfind, and a chiircb lias alreudy bean extractad trom it. lts original plans nhows it to have been built uear the closo of the Roman Emp:re, bnt changas made in it have given it the appearanoe of an ediflce of mixed stylo iu wbioh Gothio architecture bas ugurped the plaoe of the Roman. The original paiutings, its admirably Boulptnred oüfoir and Roman capitals, are adorned with profnise oronmenU) which are nttrating a numbor of visitois. The temple i all that ramains of thosa anoient citiea deBonhed by Fliny and Strabo. The Gnlf oi Gaseony nbounds iu ruine of theso ancient oitios It. has been 1.500 years sinoo ISoviamun, the old cupital of Medoc, which was a very oelehrated oity when the Romtinft wero nuisterg o( Gaal) was buried under the ooean. Of all that traot of tenitory lïoehe du Cordonou alöne is visible; tbo remmng of Kouian roadg, the fite ot Jnpiter's templa, the vcstiüüw of the Spanish Moors, and tho roadi to Elanor da Guyenne havo been resoued from the sands in the iH'iffhborhood of the long bnried city of Bouhio. Nowbere baB tho erosión of the ocean been greater thua oa tb,e ooast of Ga-couy. An Indianapolis dispatch Paya aboat tbirty Iüdiaaa regimontH wi!' bo rnuetw e3 ont withia two wek.

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Old News
Michigan Argus