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...site of the theatre of Dionysus at Athens remained unknown until a recent date, and the excavations which have given us most of our present knowledge of it were made by German archaeologists. The theatre is now known to have been just south of the Acropolis and the slope of this eminence made a natural amphitheatre...
...slides, to the seracs, crevasses, dirt bands, and moraines, the latter being tinted according to the rocks from which they are derived. Below the foot of the glacier, there are several abandoned moraines, one of which encloses a small lake. The rock ledges down the valley and on its slopes for a certain height above the ice are rounded and striated with surprising verisimilitude, indicating the former extent of the glacier. The model of the torrent illustrates the early stages of valley growth, when the little head water branch streams are gnawing backwards with great rapidity into the plateau country...
...been granted to Americans. There remains, therefore, only the financial side of the question to be considered. The Greek government stipulated of course that full indemnification be made to all inhabitants whom the excavators might disturb. As a matter of fact, the site of ancient Delphi on the southern slope of Mount Parnassus is at present entirely covered by the village of Castri. It will be necessary to buy this village out entire before beginning the work, and for this purpose $80,000 is needed by the first of June. The American Archaeological Institute has the matter of raising...
...entire tract embraces about 7000 acres in the San Jose valley, about thirty miles from San Francisco, overlooking the head of the bay and not far from Menlo Park, the country home of several prominent Californians. It occupies the rolling slopes of the low hills of one of the interior coast ranges. In addition to the immediate surroundings of the university, the plan embraces an arboretum in which it is proposed to gather the arboreal vegetation of California and of other regions of the world with similar climates, and an artificially planned forest of several acres which will serve...
...southern slope of Mount Lycabettus, about fifteen minutes' walk from the centre of the city, is an open reservation about a quarter of a mile square, partly laid out as public grounds, partly occupied by public buildings. Here on the western side is the hospital Evangelion, and higher up the hill a plot of ground for a Normal School, the building for which has not yet been erected. On the eastern side is the old monastery of the Asomaton, now occupied as officers' barracks, standing picturesquely in the midst of trees, one of the few groves in Attica, the successor...