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Excavation was begun on this site in 1859-61, and the end wall of a basilica of fine proportions was unearthed. Baths also were disclosed; and in one of the hypocausts were found the skeleton of an old man with a heap of coins by his outstretched hand, and the skeletons of two women. Blackened beams blocking the exit showed that they had been trapped when seeking refuge from fire, and traces of fire and skeletons of men, women and children in other places show that sudden and overwhelming disaster at some moment overtook the city. Mr. Thomas Wright puts this event as late as 420 A.D. and imputes the destruction to the British. There is much reason to believe that the city was more than once burned down. Straight and broad streets, factories and shops, and some remarkable buildings (one in particular said to have the longest continuous colonnade discovered in this country) attest the fulness and importance of the civic life of the place. The remains which are of the greatest variety and high historical value, especially the coins seem to point to four distinct periods in its history and afford means for fixing the dates of two destructions by fire. An inscription found in fragments in front of a portico records the dedication of the building in the fourteenth year of Hadrian. THE Commission of five experts appointed in 1921 to report on the methods of repairing St. Paul's, have addressed a second interim statement of their opinion to the Dean and Chapter. They consider the present state of the Cathedral somewhat serious and their scheme of restoration would involve a cost of over £120,000. They are satisfied with the results of the method adopted in strengthening the N.E. pier-a process of grouting and cemeting, by which the interior of the pier has been adequately consolidated, while broken external facing stones have been gradually replaced; and they recommend its extension to the other piers in preference to their reconstruction, THE Superintendent of the Naples Museum ON Jan. 1 the capital city of Norway, which has been known as Christiania for three hundred years, resumed its ancient name of Oslo. The name Christiania was derived from Christian IV of Denmark, founder of the modern city; and thus was an unwelcome reminder to the Norwegian of the union of Norway with Denmark. was the original name of the ancient capital and principal port of the kingdom, stand Oslo |