CHAPTER IV.

_ANOTHER GROUP OF ARCHÆOLOGISTS AND EXPLORERS.—THE SPOILS OF XANTHUS,

OF BABYLON, OF NINEVEH, OF HALICARNASSUS, AND OF CARTHAGE._

_The Libraries of the East.—The Monasteries of the Nitrian Desert,

and their Explorers.—William Cureton and his Labours on the MSS.

of Nitria, and in other Departments of Oriental Literature.—The

Researches in the Levant of Sir Charles Fellows, of Mr. Layard,

and of Mr. Charles Newton.—Other conspicuous Augmentors of the

Collection of Antiquities_ 608

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