

 Interesting Djseopenies.--ln the month lofDecember, 1927 aplanterdiseoYered, in field at short distane from Monte yideo, sort of tomb stone upon which, strange and to him unknown, signs were eugrayen. He caused this stone, which covered q small small excavation formed aith masonry, 10 be raised, in which he found two exceedingly ancient swords, a hei- met, and shield, which had suffered much from rust, and earthen amphera, l of large capacity. The planter caused these objects, together with the tomb stone, to be removed to Monte Video, where, in spite of the ravages of time, and the little care taken of the stone, fragments of Greek words could be easi- l ly made out, read, and supplied, which when translated, ere to the following purpose: !. During the dominion of Al- exander; sonofPhilip, King ofMacedon, in the 63d Olympiad, Ptolemaios, it was impossible to decipher the rest. On the handle of one ofthe swords was the portrait of a man, supposed to be Alex ander, on the helmett there is seulptured work that must have been executed by l the most exquisite skill, representing Achilles dragging the corps of Hector round the walls of Troy; (like the Fab ula Iiaca, the bas-relief of stueco found in the ruins of the Via Appia at Fratoc- chic, belonging to the princes of Coion- ia, which describes all the principal sceHes in the Had and Odyssey.) It is quite clear, from the discovery of this kind of monumental altar, that d con temporary of Aristotle has dug up the soil of Brazil and La Plata. It is con Ijeetured that this PtoIemaios was the commander of Alexander's fleet; which is supposed to have been oyertaken by a storm in the great ocean, as the an- clients called 1t, and driven on the coast of Brazil, where it erected the above mentioned monument, to preserve tue memory of the voyage to so distant a country. 1t ali events, the discovery furnishes a fact deserving the attention of Antiquarians.-Frou he Journal des Toyages ct .4rchives Geogrqp}aqstes.

 