. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. Fig. 161—Plan of Hierapalis. From Labordes Si/ria. some five miles apart. The one on the left, Hierapolis, was the less important, but inthe more commanding situation (fig. 167); it stood ou the summit of a clifi, but with a. Fit;, le,-*.—Cotw of Hitrapol, the British Jfitfeum. Obr. A (i fcmsilf hrad will] the legend Boi/Ai) ().—i?«i>. Equestrian figure with the legend lepairoAeiroi(of the Hieiapolitans). still higher mountain towering behind, and the sloi^e before it down to the plain hada white dazzling appearance like a glacier. This
. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. Fig. 161—Plan of Hierapalis. From Labordes Si/ria. some five miles apart. The one on the left, Hierapolis, was the less important, but inthe more commanding situation (fig. 167); it stood ou the summit of a clifi, but with a. Fit;, le,-*.—Cotw of Hitrapol, the British Jfitfeum. Obr. A (i fcmsilf hrad will] the legend Boi/Ai) ().—i?«i>. Equestrian figure with the legend lepairoAeiroi(of the Hieiapolitans). still higher mountain towering behind, and the sloi^e before it down to the plain hada white dazzling appearance like a glacier. This phenomenon arose from the springsthat issued above, and which, being strongly impregnated with a cretaceous substance,covered the rocks, over which they trickled, with an incrustation of brittle a brow of the overhanging mountain was the famous Plutonium, or Temple ofPluto, the mouth of a subterraneous cavern, from which arose a caliginous noxiousvapour, most destructive to life. About half an acre of ground around the orifice wasfenced in, and any animal that was driven within the paling immediately expired,while the priests of Pluto could venture in with impunity.^- The solution of the Strabo, xiii. 4 (p. 157, Tauchuitz). Chap. XIII.]
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