. William H. Seward's travels around the world. e the earth itself. Thus far we felt that we were treading on tolerably safe groundin exploring the history of Ephesus. Now, however, on lookingoff toward the sea, we saw, on the northern promontory, a cir-cular, castellated tower, which certainly is not as old as the Pyra-mids nor as new as Fortress Monroe. Inquiring what it was, wewere answered that it was St. Pauls prison. It is more prob-ably the ruin of a Saracenic (possibly a Roman) watch-tower. Wenext passed over an elevated plain designated, perhaps not withoutreason, as a field of gymnas
. William H. Seward's travels around the world. e the earth itself. Thus far we felt that we were treading on tolerably safe groundin exploring the history of Ephesus. Now, however, on lookingoff toward the sea, we saw, on the northern promontory, a cir-cular, castellated tower, which certainly is not as old as the Pyra-mids nor as new as Fortress Monroe. Inquiring what it was, wewere answered that it was St. Pauls prison. It is more prob-ably the ruin of a Saracenic (possibly a Roman) watch-tower. Wenext passed over an elevated plain designated, perhaps not withoutreason, as a field of gymnastic exercises similar to the Olympicgames. Ephesus, so completely ruined, is now nearly lost sight of bytravellers ; but an English gentleman, Mr. Wood, is here conduct-ing researches for the British Museum. He believes he has recentlydiscovered, by unmistakable signs, the site of the temple dedicatedto the worship of the great goddess Diana, and of the imagewhich fell down from Jupiter. Mr. Wood is said to have care- i ill i m l^£:^,^^#^iiii. THE ISLES OF GREECE. 621 fully covered the columns which he has discovered, a service to his-tory for which he does not receive the thanks of the guides or thefew tourists who penetrate to Ephesus. We left Ephesus under the beams of a crescent moon (though notas the Turks paint it, with Venus between its horns), and reachedthe hospitable home of our consul, Mr. Smithers, at midnight. It was the eve of St. John, and, late as the hour was, the en-tire population was in the streets, which were blazing with bon-fires. We are not surprised at this devout reverence paid to hismemory, for we recall the fact that the apostolic missionaries, whenthey first came to Ephesus, found there Jews who practised the riteof baptism, but knew only the baptism of John. Grecian Archipelago, June 2ith.—Pleasant courtesies were ex-changed between Mr. Seward and the Turkish authorities atSmyrna. We parted here with our excellent friend Betts Bey,and reembarked
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