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Friedrich answered with vivacity, a little nettled at the ironical tone of Botta, and his mixed sympathy and menace: "You find my troops are beautiful; perhaps I shall convince you they are good too." Yes, Excellency Botta, goodish troops; and very capable "to look the wolf in the face," or perhaps in the tail too, before all end!
It was built, or rebuilt, by the Aragonese, with four corner towers, one of which became infamous for a scene that rivals the horrors of the Black Hole of Calcutta. Numbers of confined brigands, uncared-for, perished miserably of starvation within its walls. Says the historian Botta: "The abominable taint prevented the guards from approaching; the dead bodies were not carried away.
PLACE, Ninive, vol. i. p. 313. Ibid. p. 310 PLACE, Ninive, vol. i. p. 311. PLACE, Ninive, vol. i. p. 307. See BOTTA, Monument de Ninive, vol. v. p. 53; Place, Ninive, vol. i. pp. 306, 307. LAYARD, Nineveh, vol. ii. p. 15. TAYLOR, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. xv. p. 409. LAYARD, Discoveries, p. 260. LAYARD, Discoveries, pp. 645-6. LAYARD, Monuments, &c., first series, plate 19.
An incident of this battle mentioned by French writers and by Botta, who probably drew upon French authorities, but not found in the English accounts, shows the critical nature of the attack in the apprehension of the French. "The action of the 'Destin' was justly praised," says Lapeyrouse-Bonfils. "The fleet ran the danger of almost certain defeat, but for the bravery of M. de Goimpy.
The only mouldings encountered in Assyria have been found on a few buildings or parts of buildings in which stone was employed. We may quote as an instance the retaining wall of the small, isolated structure excavated by Botta towards the western angle of the Khorsabad mound, and by him believed to be a temple.
But in all the long list of enthusiasts not one deserves a higher honor or has reaped a richer harvest than Sir Henry Layard. Layard: "Early Adventures;" "Nineveh and its Remains;" "Nineveh and Babylon;" "Monuments of Nineveh." Botta: "Monument de Ninive." Loftus: "Chaldea and Susiana." Y. Place: "Ninive et Assyrie."
Botta was followed by Austen Henry Layard, who, acting as the agent of the British Museum, conducted excavations during the years 1845-52, first at a mound Nimrud, some fifteen miles to the south of Khorsabad, and afterwards on the site of Nineveh proper, the mound Koyunjik, opposite Mosul, besides visiting and examining other mounds still further to the south within the district of Babylonia proper.
In the fragment now in the Louvre there are three stories, but the upper story, being an exact repetition of that immediately below it, has been omitted in our engraving. LOFTUS, Travels and Researches, p. 176. LAYARD, Discoveries, pp. 529, 651. BOTTA, Monument de Ninive, vol. v. p. 44. PLACE, Ninive, vol. i. p. 77.
He met with little or no resistance in reducing Montalban, Villafranca, and Ventimiglia; while general Brown, with eight-and-twenty thousand Aus-trians, retired towards Final and Savona. In the meantime, another large body under count Schuylemberg, Who had succeeded the marquis de Botta, co-operated with fifteen thousand Piedmontese in an attempt to recover the city of Genoa.
For we feel that we have a country still, feel it the more deeply for our suffering, and our hope deferred, and out of the darkness of to-day we have still faith to see a fairer America rising, a higher ideal of freedom, to warm the soul of the artist and nerve the arm of the soldier. From the Latest and Best Authorities. By MRS. ANNE C.L. BOTTA. A New Edition. 12mo.
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