The Rome correspondent of the Daily Express sends to Friday's
paper a very interesting piece of news. It is to the effect that Professor Ciro Nispi-Landi has obtained leave from the Italian authorities to subject the bed of the Tiber to a thorough search. Historical research had shown, he says, that for ages "the Romans cast their most priceless posses- sions on the bosom of Father Tiber as offerings to the god which they believed to live beneath his waters." Besides such articles, the Professor expects to find an extraordinary variety of curios in the way of armour worn "by the many soldiers who must at one time or another have lost their lives in battles that raged along the banks and on the bridges of the Tiber; and many more valuable articles which were cast into the stream by the early Christian fanatics. People always exaggerate the chances of treasure trove, but we do not doubt that if the bed of the Tiber could be thoroughly searched the " finds " would be on a very great scale and of immense interest.
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