Constantinople : and the scenery of the seven churches of Asia Minor . WITH THE SEVEN CHURCHES OF ASIA MINOR. described it. Again the mysterious edifice was lost, and Janissaries attending travellersas guides could give them no clue to discover it,—this singular and magnificent excava-tion appearing and disappearing to human sight, like some enchanted palace in Orientalfiction. Finally, it was searched for by a Frank resident of Pera, and, after two yearsdiligent inquiry, was at length discovered by him, under the foundation of a privatehouse, in a remote and obscure street. Part of a wall
Constantinople : and the scenery of the seven churches of Asia Minor . WITH THE SEVEN CHURCHES OF ASIA MINOR. described it. Again the mysterious edifice was lost, and Janissaries attending travellersas guides could give them no clue to discover it,—this singular and magnificent excava-tion appearing and disappearing to human sight, like some enchanted palace in Orientalfiction. Finally, it was searched for by a Frank resident of Pera, and, after two yearsdiligent inquiry, was at length discovered by him, under the foundation of a privatehouse, in a remote and obscure street. Part of a wall had fallen in, and discovered tothe astonished proprietor innumerable marble columns, of various orders of architecture,rising out of a vast lake of water, and supporting a lofty arched roof, on which his housestood. From that time, easy access has been afforded to it; every stranger visits it;and there is no probability that the Turks, now so much more enlightened and inquisi-tive, will again suffer the memory of this noble work of Grecian art to perish amongthe
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