Antiquities of the Orient unveiled, containing a concise description of the remarkable ruins of King Solomon's temple, and store cities ,together with those of all the most ancient and renowned cities of the East, including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, and Shushan . a ai I m. EPHESUS. THE EENOAVNED TEMPLE OF DIANA. The site of this ancient city is about 40 miles 8. nof Smyrna, and 600 n. w. of Jerusalem. It wassituated near the mouth of the river Cayster, andstood partly on the level ground, and partly on thehills Mt. Prion and Coressus. Its harbor at themouth of the Cayster was admirably const
Antiquities of the Orient unveiled, containing a concise description of the remarkable ruins of King Solomon's temple, and store cities ,together with those of all the most ancient and renowned cities of the East, including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, and Shushan . a ai I m. EPHESUS. THE EENOAVNED TEMPLE OF DIANA. The site of this ancient city is about 40 miles 8. nof Smyrna, and 600 n. w. of Jerusalem. It wassituated near the mouth of the river Cayster, andstood partly on the level ground, and partly on thehills Mt. Prion and Coressus. Its harbor at themouth of the Cayster was admirably constructed, andwas at one time capable of accommodating a large fleetof the shipping of the day. In the Roman timestwo great roads led eastward from Ephesus; onethrough the passes of Tmolus to Sardis and Galatia,and the other round the extremity of Pactyas toMagnesia, and up the valley of the Meander toIconium, from whence the communication was directto Syrian Antioch and the Euphrates. Correspondingwith these roads, there appear to have been, on theE. side of Ephesus, Sardian and Magnesian were also coast roads leading northward toSmyrna, and southward to Miletus. By the lattertlie Ephesian elders traveled to meet Paul at thelatter city. St. Pauls first visi
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