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yHlain , though he returned the pistol to his belt , snatched up an infant child , and carried it off . Providence again interfered in behalf of innocence , and while the fellow was asleep , it was taken out of his arms by one of his own men , and restored to its parent . " Mr . Arundell appears to draw his geographical conclusions very frequently from insufficient premises . From an inscription on a pillar found at
Sedikeny , which was a dedication by the city of Hyrcania to the Emperors Gallus and Volusianus , he considered that this was the site of the ancient Hyrcania , not reflecting " that this marble might be brought , like many others ,, from Smyrna , and that Smyrna was the head and place of assembly of the con venters , to which the city of Hyrcania belonged . " ( Note by Col . Leake . J But we shall see some other conclusions of the same nature equally unfounded .
Nothing occurred to our travellers that seems deserving of much notice on their road to Aiasaluk , the ancient Ephesus . " A few unintelligible heaps of stones , with some mud cottages untenanted , are all the remains of the great city of the Ephesians . The busy hum of a mighty population is silent in death ; even the sea has retired from the scene of desolation , and a pestilential morass , covered with mud and rushes , has succeeded to the waters which brought up the ships laden with merchandise from every country . "
A detailed account of Ephesus is here given from Chandler , and a history of the city and its celebrated temple from Herodotus and other writers The very site of this magnificent building is undetermined , after all the ingenious conjectures of modern travellers . Mr . A . cuts the gordian knot , and supposes that the entire ruins of the temple are buried beneath the soil :
: "The desolation at Ephesus , " our author says , " was complete . A Turk , whose shed we occupied , and a single Greek , composed the whole population , some Turcomans excepted , whose black tents were pitched among * the ruins . " From Ephesus they travelled through a beautiful , picturesque country , and explored on their way the ruii ^ s pf Magnesia , which Col . Leake , on strong grounds ,, supposes to have been what is now called Inefcbazar ,
though Chandler and D' Anvitle have placed Magnesia more to the east , at Quzel Hissar . Qur author , however , determines that Guzel Hissar was the ancient Tralles , wjth . vfhich information he greatly surprised the Bishop of Heliopoljis , whp resides here . This same Bishop did not impress the tsravejlejs very favourably , for " he threw down before them a large bag full of worthless copper coins of the lower empire , unsolicited ; and , though the Sabbath-day , would readily have entered into a treaty for their purchase . "
They were * however , better pleased afterwards with the Bishop of Philadelphia whom they found at Sairikeny , on a visitation of his diocese ; for he sent one of his priests with a polite , request that they would call on him . They were present at evening prayers , which , lijte prayer ^ in some other jja ^ es , were unintelligible from the rapidity with which they were uttered . Departing from this village , they passed in their way a Turcoman encampment , and found the people unlike those * * V murderous villains" who caused so much alarm to Chandler * They ate described as proverbially simple , industrious , and hospitable , and rich in flocks and herds . Passing through a bog , without ; any other adventure than " killing a duck
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Review . ' —Arundells Vint to the Seven Churches . 399
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1828, page 399, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2561/page/39/
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