. Arctic sunbeams: or, From Broadway to the Bosphorus, by way of the North Cape. s no introduction to thisfavorite city of vSt. Paul. As an apostolic andChristian home it is better known than as a greatcapital and the site of the great pagan shrine, Ephesus, in space, is or was situated on the Gulfof Scala Nova, and also south of the CaystrusRiver. It is now in, near, or over a very hot caloric is mostly from below. A grand labora-tory has been at work from the earliest times amongthese coasts of Greece. The recent evidences ofits labors we saw, the other day, at Chios, and thecumula
. Arctic sunbeams: or, From Broadway to the Bosphorus, by way of the North Cape. s no introduction to thisfavorite city of vSt. Paul. As an apostolic andChristian home it is better known than as a greatcapital and the site of the great pagan shrine, Ephesus, in space, is or was situated on the Gulfof Scala Nova, and also south of the CaystrusRiver. It is now in, near, or over a very hot caloric is mostly from below. A grand labora-tory has been at work from the earliest times amongthese coasts of Greece. The recent evidences ofits labors we saw, the other day, at Chios, and thecumulative, or, rather, tumulative, evidences ofwhich are found from Smyrna to Constantinople,and from Athens to Adalia. Ephesus would notbe quite such a pulverization but for the volcanicfires. Perhaps but for them the sea would still belaving its old walls and cheering its gloom. Fromthe top of Mount Coressus, which was once a partof the city, could be seen the island of Chios andthe promontory of Karaboumon, on ;and on the south-west, set in the blue ^^gean, the 21S. EPHESUS—HER DIVINITIES AND HER DIVINITY. 219 isle of Samos, and perhaps a dozen others, includ-inof Patmos and Scio. I doubt not that from thetop seats of the great theatre, into which, with oneaccord, the people rushed, with Pauls companionsin custody, the galleys of the Roman and Greekemperors could be seen going from or entering thebay to Ephesus. Ephesus, in time, may have had more vicissi-tudes than she has had in space; but she took upa good deal of space once. From the time ofAlexander the Great to the age of Cicero andCsesar, its greatness rose and culminated. Thereis no way of ascertaining its population. It had nocensus bureau, whose records have been found;but, judging even by its vaults, where the super-structures are no more ; by the size of the gymna-sium and theatre ; by the magnitude of its templesand their magnificence ; and by its agora, tombs,mint, aqueducts, and their separate and jo
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