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those seventy years has been about three- 
tenths of a square mile; and from all 
known data it appears that the total in¬ 
crease during six centuries has been 
about 198 square miles. The increase 
is continuing, and the Gulf of Venice is 
doomed in time to disappear. No im¬ 
mediate alarm need, however, be excited 
for Professor Marinelli calculates that 
between 100 and 120 centuries will 
elapse before the entire Northern Adri¬ 
atic will have become dry land .—London 
Chronicle. 
A SUBMERGED CITY IN INDIA 
1N the eastern part of the district of 
Kattiawar, to a the northwest of 
Bhownugger, lies the jungle of Peloo, 
the vegetation of which is composed al¬ 
most entirely of the Salvadora Persica. 
The surface is a complete level, and the 
soil a deep alluvial, through which sev¬ 
eral brackish water-courses slowly run. 
This jungle now occupies the site of what 
was once a very large city—Vamila-pura 
—the surface being in many places 
strewed with the debris of burnt bricks, 
resembling those brought from the 
Euphrates. In the middle there is a cir¬ 
cular enclosure of bricks, about 15 feet 
in diameter, much resembling the Druid¬ 
like religious enclosures of the Gonds. 
The floor is paved with brick, and in the 
east face of the wall there is a niche con¬ 
taining the remains of an obliterated 
image. This structure, however, ap¬ 
pears to be a modern one, erected from 
ancient materials. Near this circle, ex¬ 
tensive excavations were in progress for 
the purpose of obtaining the large burnt 
bricks, quantities of which are dug up 
from ten to eighteen feet below the sur¬ 
face and sold for building. The neigh¬ 
boring town of Wullay is almost entirely 
built of them. The floors of several 
houses paved with large yellow bricks 
were observed in their primitive level, 
showing that the city had not been over¬ 
turned by an earthquake. To the west 
of the circular enclosure there is a full 
size granite figure of Nandi, the Bull of 
Siva, and farther on a large granite 
lingam mounted upon a pedestal of 
burnt bricks. If these images are coeval 
with the ruined city, they would show 
it to be one of great antiquity; but the 
inference derived from the enormous 
size of the slow-growing Salvadora 
Persica, which is found in many places 
over the ruins, tells against any such 
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