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several remains of antiquity which he has brought to light with the 
subjects mentioned in legends which have been handed down to us 
through the uncertain traditions of the poets. 
The unhappy complications in Eastern Europe of a few years ago 
have at least brought forth some good results to antiquarian e es 
Thessaly having been ceded to Greece, learned men at Athens are 
already taking steps for the preservation of any objects of interest 
which may be brought to light on that classic soil. In Cyprus, 
English, Greek, and Turk are united in the careful search for 
Cypriotie, Phoenician, and Greek remains, which no doubt still 
abound in that island, no longer, I am glad to say, to sell to the 
highest bidder in Western Europe or America, but to form a local 
museum at Nicosia. ! 
The Commission which is now labouring at Rome has already 
been rewarded, besides minor triumphs, by the discovery of the walls - 
of Antemn®, a city which is mentioned by Virgil, when he tells how— 
Five mighty towns, their anvils set 
With emulous zeal their weapons whet : 
S , Tib renowned. 
And strong Atina there are found, 
d nd crowned 
and which is stated by Livy to have been the hirih-place of Hopelli 
the wife of Romulus, and to have been one of the cities that joined 
in the attack on Rome in revenge for the rape of the Sabines. How 
far we can regard the incidents related by Livy as literally true, or 
whether we must treat them as a vast pile of legend built on a 
slender foundation of history, it would be out of place for me here 
to consider; but at least we may take it as a fact that Antemna was 
a town which flourished ere Rome was built, and was destroyed long 
before the time of Pliny, and that even a very few years since it was 
believed that no traces of it could be found. 
rning to geographical research, much valuable information has 
been obtained concerning the hitherto little known countries of Central 
Asia, by the explorations of O’Donovan in the Merv Oasis, by Floyer 
in Beloochistan, Baber in Western China, and other travellers both 
English and Russian. 
The results of the interesting geographical and ethnological 
investigations made by my friend M. Miklouho Maclay during his 
scientific travels in South-Eastern Asia and Oceanica, have been given 
to the world by means of lectures before the Russian Geographical 
Society, and are soon to appear in a complete form, the work being 
published at the expense of the Emperor. Recent events, which have 
turned our attention to New Guinea, make the information he has 
collected during several prolonged visits to that island of special 
