between Archceology and Geology, 247 



Hemans, on the hidden *• Treasures of the Deep," are as true 

 as they are beautiful : — 



*' What wealth untold 

 Far down, and shining through their stillness lies : 

 They have the starry gems, the burning gold, 

 Won from a thousand royal argosies. 



Yet more — the depths have more — their waves have roU'd 



Above the cities of a world gone by : 

 Sand hath fiU'd up the palaces of old, 



Sea- weed o'ergrown the halls of revelry." 



In connection with this topic, I would refer to the ingulf- 

 ing of buildings, and even entire cities, by the effects of 

 earthquakes and volcanic eruptions ; of which the catastrophe 

 which overwhelmed Stabise, Herculaneum, and Pompeii, af- 

 fords an illustration never to be forgotten ; for after the 

 lapse of nearly seventeen centuries, the city of Pompeii was 

 disinterred from its silent tomb, in that marvellous state of 

 conservation so graphically described by one of our most 

 eminent living authors.* " All vivid with undimmed hues — • 

 its wall fresh is if painted yesterday — not a tint faded from 

 the rich mosaic of its floors — in its forum the half-finished 

 columns, as left by the workman's hands — before the trees 

 in its gardens the sacrificial tripod — in its halls the chest of 

 treasure — in its baths the strigil — in its theatres the counter 

 of admission — in its saloons the furniture and the lamp — 

 in its triclinise the fragments of the last feast — in its cubicula 

 the perfume and the rouge of faded beauty — and everywhere 

 the skeletons of those who once moved the springs of that 

 minute but gorgeous machinery of luxury and of life."-!- 



III. — On Human Remains associated with those of extinct Animals 

 in the ancient Alluvial Deposits. 



Although the relics of man and his works have been found 

 in many places associated with the bones of extinct species 



* Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton's " Last days of Pompeii." 



t An extended review of all the facts relating to the submergence of cities, 



edifices, and tracts of country, will be found in Sir Charles Lyell's Principles 



of Geology. 



