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Liberorum Latomorum Primordia Et Recentiora Vera.
scribed latest and best by Dr . J . Collingivood Bruce , * as far as the wall's end ( in Britain ) near Newcastle , whence the derivation of the best description of its fuel is furnished to London , but of ivhich so few of its inhabitants know the origin-But the vast intrenchment does not end here , it is taken up again on the left bank of the Rhineas soon as that river
, becomes passable above Deutz , and is continued uninterruptedly to the Donau , near Kelheim , and may be faintly followed through the ancient Rhetia and Dacia , to the confines of the Euxine Sea . Along " all this vast extent of circuit Mithriatic secret temples of initiation and mystery , with great richness of symbolism and sculpture , are found , which ,, in many instances ,
the circumstance of their being excavated in , and covered by , the soil , has preserved with a remarkable freshness . In Britain , to pass by inferior discoveries , there was opened in 18 . 22 ,. at Housesteads , the ancient Burcovicus , on our portion of this wall , one of these curious caverns ; the altars and bas-reliefs found in it are now in the Museum at Newcastle , and described in Dr . Brace ' s irofk , p . 179 , and pp . 386 to 392 , with
engravings , Avho says , p . 38 o , " Several of the altars found on the line of the Avail are dedicated to the god Mithras . " In Germany , the greatest portion of their Pfahl Graben or Teufels-mauer ( Pale dike or Devil's wall ) yet awaits a scientific survey , and it is therefore pleasing to knoAv , that from the great central body of German antiquaries-, under the able presidency
of Prince John , presumptive heir of the Saxon crown , and to AA'hich nearly all the archajological societies of that country , SAiitzerland , and Denmark , sent their adhesion and deputies at the second anniversary , just concluded at Nurnberg ( 13 th to 16 th Sept . ) , the investigation of their wall , in its entire extent from Rhine to Donau , has been taken up systematically ;
each society ansivering for the portion Avithin its district ; and a report may be expected at the next anniversary meeting , at Munster , in Westphalia , Avhich ivill embrace the results to be derived from the answer's returned to the 105 queries , distributed as circulars amongst the societies , to give uniformity to the investigations . These are drawn up by the Nassau Archivarius , Herr Habel of Schierstein , with the ability and discrimination of a thirty years' study of the antiquities of his native country . It is to the great exertions of the same gen-
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Liberorum Latomorum Primordia Et Recentiora Vera.
scribed latest and best by Dr . J . Collingivood Bruce , * as far as the wall's end ( in Britain ) near Newcastle , whence the derivation of the best description of its fuel is furnished to London , but of ivhich so few of its inhabitants know the origin-But the vast intrenchment does not end here , it is taken up again on the left bank of the Rhineas soon as that river
, becomes passable above Deutz , and is continued uninterruptedly to the Donau , near Kelheim , and may be faintly followed through the ancient Rhetia and Dacia , to the confines of the Euxine Sea . Along " all this vast extent of circuit Mithriatic secret temples of initiation and mystery , with great richness of symbolism and sculpture , are found , which ,, in many instances ,
the circumstance of their being excavated in , and covered by , the soil , has preserved with a remarkable freshness . In Britain , to pass by inferior discoveries , there was opened in 18 . 22 ,. at Housesteads , the ancient Burcovicus , on our portion of this wall , one of these curious caverns ; the altars and bas-reliefs found in it are now in the Museum at Newcastle , and described in Dr . Brace ' s irofk , p . 179 , and pp . 386 to 392 , with
engravings , Avho says , p . 38 o , " Several of the altars found on the line of the Avail are dedicated to the god Mithras . " In Germany , the greatest portion of their Pfahl Graben or Teufels-mauer ( Pale dike or Devil's wall ) yet awaits a scientific survey , and it is therefore pleasing to knoAv , that from the great central body of German antiquaries-, under the able presidency
of Prince John , presumptive heir of the Saxon crown , and to AA'hich nearly all the archajological societies of that country , SAiitzerland , and Denmark , sent their adhesion and deputies at the second anniversary , just concluded at Nurnberg ( 13 th to 16 th Sept . ) , the investigation of their wall , in its entire extent from Rhine to Donau , has been taken up systematically ;
each society ansivering for the portion Avithin its district ; and a report may be expected at the next anniversary meeting , at Munster , in Westphalia , Avhich ivill embrace the results to be derived from the answer's returned to the 105 queries , distributed as circulars amongst the societies , to give uniformity to the investigations . These are drawn up by the Nassau Archivarius , Herr Habel of Schierstein , with the ability and discrimination of a thirty years' study of the antiquities of his native country . It is to the great exertions of the same gen-