THE 



WESTERN REVIEW OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



A RECORD OF PROGRESS IN 



Science, Mechanic Arts and Agriculture. 



VOL. 1. APRIL, 1877. NO. 2. 



ARCHEOLOGY. 



DI CESNOLA'S DISCOVERIES AT CURIUM. 



Since the year 1866, Gen. Di Cesnola, who was one of New York's dis- 

 tinguished soldiers in the late war, has been exploring the ancient ruins of 

 the island of Cyprus, and four years ago created a high degree of interest 

 -and enthusiasm among students and artists by exhibiting, first in England 

 and afterwards in New York, where it was purchased by the trustees of the 

 Metropolitan Museum, a large and varied collection of Cyprian antiquities, 

 which he had brought from the ancient sito of Gotgos. 



During the ten years Of his labors, Gen. Di Cesnola has made excava- 

 tions at more than thirty different points, making discoveries of greater or 

 less interest and importance to the historian and archfeologist, having iden- 

 tified the sites of not less than nine or ten ancient cities which had passed 

 out of the memory and recognition of the world, and discovered the sites 

 ■of as many as seven ancient towns whose names are as yet unknown. In 

 the latter part of 1876 he arrived in London with another most rare and 

 valuable collection of gold, silver and bronze relics, taken from some sub- 

 terranean chambers discovered and explored by him at Curium, in 1875. 

 Having failed to sell them to our British cousins, he offered them to the 

 trustees of the Metropolitan Museum, at New Tork, for $60,000 in gold, an 

 offer which they promptly accepted and secured the amount within a few 



