The gloomy vaults and passages of the Catacombs of St. Calixtus, near Rome, Avere recently illuminated Avith thousands of electric lamps. Modern practical science brought face to face Avith antiquity showed the latter in a most uncanny aspect, for the effect of the electric light as it fell upon the rows of bones and skeletons is described, as being startling. . '_ v _
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Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 148, 25 June 1898, Page 3 (Supplement)
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