28i2 Antiquities. 



There w;is soon the appearance of a large globe rising and 

 ascending inio the atmosphere, occasioning verv violent 

 cojnniotions and coiivulsions in tlie enrth. The lull ot" 

 trees was distinctly heard, and large branches thereof, to- 

 gether with iunuuierable birds, were seen carried to an im- 

 mense height in the air, the clouds, at the same time, con- 

 vulsed in the most awful manner: There was seen what re- 

 sembled a walcr-spoHt, but no water fell fnnn it. This 

 continued its course from the north-east to the southwnrd, 

 carrying all before it, tearing up logwood, cotton trees. See., 

 bv the roots, and whirling up in tlie air the limbs of nand)ers 

 of the largest trees, having, at the iavne time, the appear- 

 ance of fire, attended with a thick black smoke, which 

 ascended from it in itscourse. and a reportlikc g\ms went off. 

 'J'his continued nearly an hour, and its com-sc was upwards 

 of a mile. Fortunately it kept where no dwellings or build- 

 ings stood, otherwise they nuisc ha^e been destroyed, as the 

 stnmgest buildin(j;s could not have wuhstood the violent 

 force of this awl'ul convulsion of nature. 



ANTtaUITIKS. 



Some Russian peasants, in digging for the foundations of 

 a fortress on the fords of the Limar, at the mouth of the 

 Danube, discovered lately a tomb which the antiquaries of 

 that country consider as that of Ovid j the reason.^ given for 

 this opinion are — first, that it stijnds on the site of Tomi, to 

 which that unfortunate poet was banished; second, that this 

 spot has long been known in the country under the name of 

 Locu/i OvtdioU [xho. Lakes of Ovid); third, that there was 

 found in the tomb a bust, which, being compared at I'eters- 

 burgh with the heads '^)f tlie beautif\il Julia, the daughter of 

 Augustus, has been found to have a perfect resemblance. 

 The Russians have given to tlicir new fortress the name of 

 Oifideopoits. 



Notwithstanding these details, given in the Russian jour- 

 nals, we do not believe that this tomb is that of Ovid. We 

 are acquainted with no medals of Julia but such as were 

 struck in countries at a distance from Rome, and by which 

 it is difficult to determine precisely the character of her form ; 

 besides, it is not probable that Ovid should cause hinisclf lo 

 be interred with the portrait of the daughter of Augustus, 



Some time ago two Wallachians, named Jeremiah Thoma 

 and Zacharias Andre, found in the forests of the Bannat, 

 near Kis-oelos, belonging to count Hunyades, the former 

 214;, and the latter 6(j Greek medals in gold, which they 



carried 



