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Account of the interesting Works of' Art lately discovered in the 

 Ruins of Selinus^ by two English Architects, Messrs Har^ 

 ris and AngeU. Communicated by Dr Traill of Liverpool.* 



X WO young English architects, Messrs Harris and Angell, 

 having come to Sicily to study its celebrated antiquities, after 

 Jong occupying themselves with those of Agrigentum, of Syra- 

 cuse and Catania, turned their attention, in the winter of 1823, 

 to the remains of Sehnus. 



In excavating amid the ruins of two great temples in that 

 place, they discovered, on the steps of their fa4;;ades, several me- 

 topes broken into a thousand fragments, on which might be 

 traced portions of figures in high relief, which inspired these 

 gentlemen with a strong desire to search for the remainder. 



They applied themselves immediately to new researches, and, 

 with great labour, collected many other fragments, which they 

 sent, with the first, to Palermo, where they proposed to unite 

 them ; and, if possible, to restore to the arts works of such ines- 

 timable value. But poor Harris, infected by the mephitic ex- 

 halations of Jalico (the ancient marsh of Gonusa, against which, 

 according to Laertius, the genius of Empedocles successfully 

 <iombated, but, unfortunately for the Selinuntines, without last- 

 ing success), died, lamented by all who knew his virtues and his 

 talents. The task of uniting the fragments then devolved on 

 his sorrowing companion, who, for that purpose, came to the 

 capital of Sicily, where he found the author of the present me- 

 moir appointed by the government to assist him. -f- 



The learned gentleman, before giving an account of the la- 

 bours of that ingenious youth, and expressing his own opinion 

 on the works which they succeeded in restoring, conceived him- 

 self calkd on to offer some observations on the origin and vicis- 

 situdes of the city to which they had belonged. Contrary to the 



* Read before the Wernerian Natural History Society, 21st April 1827. 



+ Signior Pietro Pisani, v/ho has published the learned memoir reviewed in 

 the present article. It was printed at Palermo, in 1814, in a small octavo vo- 

 lume, entitled, " Memoria delle opere di Scuttura uUmamente scoperte in Selu 

 nunte.''' 



