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vinegar . We are afraid . this did not contribute to raise the character of the medical profession , which it appears has already fallen into disrepute since the time of Lucas . , From Isbatta , through a road particularly interesting , they proceeded to Aglaren , which Mr . A . was firmly Persuaded stood on the site of the ancient
Sagalassus , situated on the indefinite limits of Phrygia and Pisidia . In this persuasion we believe he was more fortunate than in some former ones , though we do not see the strength of that reasoning which appears to have acted most forcibly on his mind . Searching the various remains of antiquity with which this place abounds , he found at length , on a pedestal sunk deep into the ground , the following letters , in the highest state of preservation :
HSArAAASSEON nOAI 2 TII 2 ( IAIA 2 ) Because the name of a town is found in an inscription , how does it follow that the town itself must have been situated where that inscription is found ? By this reasoning , some centuries hence , London may be proved to have been at Plymouth , because an epitaph at Plymouth , recording the death of an inhabitant of London , may be all obliterated except the name of the metropolis .
From Sagalassus , the party turned back again towards the west , passing through a desolate country , without even a vestige of vegetation , on the bare calcareous hills , " and the half moon appearing over them , just at the moment seemed a type of the withering and blasting influence of the Turkish crescent over these once Christian countries . " They arrived at a handsome Turkish town called Bourdour , surrounded by beautiful gardens and rich vineyards . Here they met with a slave proprietor conducting about a dozen males and females to Constantinople . Mr . Arundell remarks , that
" A traffic in human flesh is in any shape so revolting to the feelings of an Englishman , that he can scarcely think of it without indignation , and yet , after all , the slave of a Turk has many advantages of situation above that of a Christian . I must be understood to mean slaves , such as those we saw at Bourdour , professing the same faith . Like the year of jubilee among the Jews , the seventh year releases the captive , and the purchase is always made upon that express condition—a condition also enforced by the Koran . "
Without being able to determine satisfactorily either the site of Colossae or the sources of the Meander , or without meeting , with any thing that requires notice , they returned through Khonas , took a north-westerly direction , and passed through Denzli and Balladan till they came to Philadelphia , now called Allah Sher . Here they called upon the Bishop whom they had
before seen at Sairikeny , accompanied him to the church , and " could not help shedding tears at contrasting this unmeaning mummery with the pure worship of primitive times , which probably bad been offered on the very site of the present church . ' * Nothing more is noticed here worthy of remark , except that the Philadelphians are a civil people , that they < f saw a number of turtle doves on the roofs of the houses , and that the storks
retained possession of the walls of the city ; " that the number of Turks and Greeks in the city is nearly equal , and that the Greek population is increasing , while the other is declining . Next arriving at Sardis , the ancient capital of Lydia , they found it consisting only of a few mud huts , inhabited by Turkish herdsmen ; and the only members of the Christian church , two Greek servants , one of whom he complains of ,, as not having shewn a very Christian spirit in refusing to
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Review . — ArundelVs Visit to the Seven Churches . 4 Qt
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1828, page 401, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2561/page/41/
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