A SINGULAR DISCOVERY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 35, 9 February 1878, Page 4

A SINGULAR DISCOVERY.

A strange discovery is reported from the Lake of Q-eneva. A touriafc having lost his trunk, two clivers were employed to search for ifc. "While they were below water they found whab they supposed to be a village, since covered by^ the lake. Their statements led to an investigation of the spot by the municipal authorities, who took measures to ascertain the truth of the extraordinary account of the divers. On covering the placid surface with, oil, these latter were able to distinguish the plan of a town, streets, squares, and detached houses marking the bed of the lake. The ruddy hue which characterised them led the observers to suppose that the buildings had been covered with the famous vermilion cement which was used by the Celts, Cimbri, and the early G-auls. There are about 200 houses -arranged over an oblong surface, near the middle of which is a space more open, supposed to have been used for public assemblages. At the eastern extremity lies a large square tower, which was taken for a rock. A superficial investigation seems to indicate that the construction of these buildings dated from some centuries before our era. The Council of Yaud has decided to have the site of the dwellings enclosed by a jetty stretching from the land, and 'to dram off the water, so as to bring to light what promises to be one of the most interesting archaeological discoveries of the present time.