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DAVIS'S RUINED CITIES OF AFRICA.

[Oct.

Now Ready, with Map and Illustrations. 8vo. 14s.

VISITS TO THE RUINED CITIES

OF ANCIENT

NUMIDIA AND CARTHAGINIA.

WITH NOTICES OF ARAB LIFE.

BY NATHAN DAVIS, F. R. G. S.

'No region on the face of the earth saddens the mind with such melancholy reflections as those which occur to us while we contemplate the southern shores of the Mediterranean. From the earliest times they were noted for their fertility. Carthage at the summit of her greatness bound the Romans by a treaty not to navigate to the south of the Hermæan Promontory (Cape Bon), that they might not be tempted to possess themselves of the rich harvests and luxuriant fruits which covered the fields in the province of Byzacium; and in later years North Africa was the granary and orchard of all opposite Europe, from Rome to Constantinople. Then fair cities arose, which were the seats of commerce, wealth, civilization, and learning. The notorious contrast presented in after times by the condition of these once flourishing districts has been the work of religious fanaticism. To exhibit some monuments of this devastation is the purpose of the volume now before us. The author had previously explored the wreck of Carthage, where his discoveries encouraged him to revisit the country and survey the more widely distributed relics of its bygone prosperity. Mr. Davis has furnished a valuable addition to our libraries.'-Morning Post.

Mr. Davis appears to have been excellently suited for the duty of restoring

to the memory of men these forgotten places of habitation. He was a keen and accurate observer, of an enthusiastic temperament, and withal indefatigably persistent in pursuit of his object. He has identified the ancient Tucca Terebenthina with the modern Mokthar, Casa Nigra with Hydra, Scillitana Colonia with Cassareen, and Suffitula with Sbaitla. These are all figured and illustrated, and serve to convey a good idea, if not of the ancient grandeur of these places, of the desolation that now broods over them. Besides these our author explored a vast number of sites known and unknown, and discovered many fragments and inscriptions which have a high value to the historian.'-Daily News.

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Mr. Davis, in his explorations of the past, is content to investigate a moderately remote antiquity, to visit the ruins of cities famous in indisputable chronicle, and to decipher inscriptions written in the familiar language of our school days. In traversing the classical region renowned for the campaign of Julius Cæsar and the struggle of Jugurtha, Mr. Davis has been preceded by Dr. Shaw, the enterprising traveller Bruce, and Sir Grenville Temple. His achievements, however, have been far more considerable than theirs. Mr. Davis's book will, we think, amuse as well as instruct.'-Westminster Review.

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

1863.]

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dieval architecture, are innumerable, and yet a systematic portable account of all the English Cathedrals, compiled in the terms of modern architectural science, remained a desideratum. Mr. Murray deserves the thanks of the Public for having undertaken this work. It is full of very valuable information, architectural, archaeological, historical, and artistic.'-Saturday Review.

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