But all articles of furniture or decoration which had been made of wood or the metals were gone.
Undoubtedly the worm of decay had long since eaten them up.
Neither were there any skeletons or like remains of human beings to be found.
When it was remembered that this city was perhaps twenty centuries old, this was not to be wondered at.
Passing through the temple, the explorers came to a spacious court, beyond which was a peristyle.
Whoever the inhabitants of the ancient city had been, they were certainly a people of gifts and much genius.
This was evident in the construction and architecture of the city.
It was a magnificent monument to their great talents, and though buried under the sea many leagues would yet exist through all time.
Beyond the peristyle court the explorers came to a mighty marble paved basin, which had evidently been a bath or large lake.
From one part of the sunken city to another the explorers wandered.