been noticed.  Some sickles, a leaden weight, fragments of glass windows, and terra cotta fragments, also included in the glass-case, were discovered among the ruins of the houses, buried by the fall of the great building.  And in this case, also, are some curiosities from Pinara, including fragments of human bones, tiles, and cement, all amalgamated by a deposit of lime filtering through the rock of a tomb; cement used to line a water cistern, and to block up the door of a rock-tomb.  With an examination of these relics, the visitor will close his inspection of the Lycian remains, and proceed at once to the

Assyrian remains.

Having examined the monumental remains of the Egyptians and the ancient inhabitants of Persia, the visitor, in order to complete a general impression of the sculptures of remote antiquity, should now direct his attention to the remains recently discovered on the site of ancient Nineveh and Nimroud.  Most readers have read something of the history of Assyria, of the effeminate Sardanapalus, of Semiramis, and of the more fabulous Ninus.  These three names are the three landmarks of Assyrian history; and the long lapses of time which separate them are shrouded in mystery, and up to late years have been filled up only by fanciful histories but slenderly based on fact.  Men have written confidently on the fall of the Assyrian empire, and of its invasion by the Medes; but the discrepancies of rival authorities, who differ as much as ten centuries in their dates according to Mr. Layard, show how insufficient were the materials upon which they pretended to found histories.  Where was the site of Babylon? where that of the renowned Nineveh?  These questions were often mooted by antiquaries.  Mounds of earth were long observed by travellers in Assyria and Babylonia; and one of these, which was formed by a mass of ruined brickwork, was heralded to the world as the remains of the tower of Babel!  But the ruins of the great Assyrian capital were for a long time unobserved.  For many years had travellers to modern Mosul looked with wondering eyes at gigantic mounds of earth that lay opposite the city.  The first traveller who did more than take a cursory view of these mysterious hillocks was Mr. Rich, who, on his way from Kurdistan to Baghdad in 1820, crossed the river, and arrived at the mounds; visited what the inhabitants asserted to be Jonah’s tomb on the summit of one of them; saw inscribed relics in the houses of the adjacent village.  Among the fragments on the largest mound he picked up some bricks with cuneiform[8] characters upon them, and fragments of pottery; and on a subsequent occasion he found a small stone chair.  He left these mounds without suspecting that he had been treading above the palaces of the ancient Assyrian monarchs—­that he had been over ancient Nineveh.  But the ground was too fruitful in remote traditions to remain altogether unexplored in this century.  The lands watered