AN ANCIENT CAPITAL 



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for Bnitenzorg, passing on our way the 

 celebrated plain of Leles, which fur- 

 nishes an example of the elaborate sys- 

 tem of land cultivation which prevails 

 in Java. 



tJuitenzorg ("without care") has a 

 charming situation 870 feet above sea- 

 level, and contains the residence of the 

 Governor General and the famous botan- 

 ical garden. First impressions count for 

 much, and in this instance the view from 

 our hotel window of the river valley 

 sweeping down from the slopes of Salak 

 mountain was one worth remembering. 

 A short walk brings us to the Botanical 

 Garden, which we enter by a noble ave- 

 nue of Kanari trees, whose overarching 

 branches form a vault of living green. 

 The garden, which comprises 90 acres, 

 was established by the German natural- 

 ist, Reinwardt, in 1817. An annual grant 



of $50,000 is made by the government 

 for its maintenance. 



After visiting other celebrated gardens 

 at Kew, Calcutta, Peradeniya, and the 

 Castleton (hardens, of Jamaica, I cheer- 

 fully award the palm of excellence to 

 this one, where man has done much but 

 nature more to develop a veritable para- 

 dise of the horticulturist. Wherever one 

 turns charming vistas meet the eye. and 

 we were especially interested in searching 

 out the useful bread-fruit tree and the 

 curious sausage and candle trees. The 

 arrangement of the specimens in family 

 groups adds much to the educational 

 value of the garden. 



In the retrospect of travel in this 

 favored isle, the memory of this lovely 

 spot will alwa}'s stand for what was 

 best "in that enchanted garden men call 



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AN ANCIENT CAPITAL 



By Isabel F. Dodd 



Professor of Art and Archeology in the American College 

 FOR Girls, Constantinople 



A'o archcoJogical discoveries of recent times are more interesting than those 

 made in the last three years of the ancient Hittite ci^'ilization in Asia Minor. There 

 arc references to the Hittites in the Old Testament (Genesis xxiii, I Kings xi, 

 II Kings z'ii), but little has been known of them until z'ery recently. The e.vcaz-a- 

 tions at Boghas Keouyand elsewhere in Asia Minor proz'c that the Hittites were 

 a pozverful and civilised race zAio ruled practically all of Asia Minor 4,000 years 

 ago. Hittite warriors orcrthrciv the first Babylonian dynasty about 1800 B. C, 

 and they also checked the victorious advance of the Egyptian kings in Syria and 

 Palestine. 



THE traveler who has taken the 

 strenuous journey of eight or 

 more days from Constantinople to 

 Boghaz Keouy will thank his lucky stars 

 that he persevered ; that he surmounted 

 the obstacles of bad roads and worse inns 

 and reached that marvelous place. 



Of late years the whole reading world 

 has become interested in the Hittites, 

 and, though the sculptures of Boghaz 

 Keouv and the fact that it was an ancient 



Hittite center have been known for many 

 years, it was not until the excavations 

 were begun there, in 1906, and carried 

 on in 1907, by Professor Winckler and 

 Macridy Bey. that any one realized what 

 a place of wonders it is. 



Boghaz Keouy means the "village of 

 the throat." for it is at the end of a deep 

 valley that the modern Turkish village 

 lies, in northern Cappadocia. and the 

 Hittites of the sixteenth and fifteentlt 



