The Arclneological Society of Vienna intends, it is stated, to
devote its surplus funds this year to a careful search in the Gulf -of Salamis for any relics of the Greek and Persian galleys which sank there 2,364 years ago. The water is not deep, and with modern appliances the bottom of the gulf can be very thoroughly explored. Metal articles will probably not have perished, and it is possible that a whole ship may have been preserved by becoming imbedded in sand, as has happened to more than one ship of the Vikings. Should the search prove successful, we would recommend to the Society a good, careful search after Pharaoh's chariots lying in the neck of the Gulf of Akabah. Or could not the "Anglo-Israelites," who believe the English people to be Jews, use their spare cash—they have plenty, for they are most of them Anglo-Indians—in that exploration ? They might find something that would support -their theory, a prophetic tablet, for instance, written by Aaron, and bearing testimony to Lord Beaconsfield ; or a square stone, with inscriptions showing that Moses established representative government, joint -stock banks, and trial by jury, and must, therefore, have been the first Englishman. That would not be a whit more wonderful than some of their discoveries, and the chariot-wheels would be irresistible evidence.
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