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by discovering various engraved slabs, with finely-inscribed 

 characters, as well as several articles of sculpture of greater or 

 less interest. He subsequently discovered the remains of an 

 immense wall of solid masonry, forty feet thick and twenty 

 feet in' height, built on the primitive rock, which he suggests 

 may have been part of the great tower of Ilium, to which An- 

 dromache went up to " scan the plain in search of Hector." 

 He thinks this tower may have been at least forty yards high, 

 estimating from the amount of rubbish which forms the slope 

 of one of its sides. Other remains of a period contempora- 

 neous with that of the construction of this tower were very 

 varied, embracing a large amount of pottery, copper nails, 

 and a great variety of stone implements, such as flints, mill- 

 stones, knives, etc. 



Our space does not permit us to repeat the details of this 

 article, all of which are of great interest. We presume that 

 the work will be continued, and that ultimately an elaborate 

 report, somewhat like that of Layard upon Nineveh, will be 

 presented to the public. JYew York Herald, Dec. 21, 1872. 



EXPLORATIONS OF PROFESSOR POWELL IX 18/2. 



Professor Powell has returned from the exploration of the 

 Colorado River of the West, having completed the examina- 

 tions of the wonderful series of canons along the course of 

 this river about the 1st of October last. He then visited a 

 group of volcanic mountains north of the Grand Cafion, com- 

 posed of about sixty basaltic cones, to which he has given 

 the name of Uinkaret Mountains (the Indian name, signifying 

 " Where the pines grow"). 



An extensive series of " faults" has been examined by the 

 party this year. These run in a northerly and southerly direc- 

 tion across the Grand Canon, and north into the plateaus at 

 the head of the Sevier, and some as far as the Wasatch Mount- 

 ains. They are from 50 to 200 miles in length, and the drop 

 from 100 to 3000 feet. The fissures of these "faults" have 

 been vents for volcanic eruptions, and along their courses vast 

 floods of lava have been poured out and cones built up. 



A number more of the ruins of ancient communal houses 

 have been discovered, making, in all, more than a hundred 

 so far found by the party in the valley of the Colorado. One 

 of these was situated on the crater of a volcanic cone. 



