Constantinople : and the scenery of the seven churches of Asia Minor . • ? WITH THE SEVEN CHURCHES OF ASIA MINOR. 71 .ZEsculapius and Hygeia, appear on the medals which remain. They had another pro-perty, that of assisting the tincture extracted from vegetable dyes, and imparting towool its richest purple. Besides its hot springs, Hierapolis was distinguished by a very remarkable and dele-terious exhalation, called very properly, plutonium, as appertaining to the key of theinfernal regions. This was a small excavation in an adjoining mountain, having an areabefore it of four or five hundred ya
Constantinople : and the scenery of the seven churches of Asia Minor . • ? WITH THE SEVEN CHURCHES OF ASIA MINOR. 71 .ZEsculapius and Hygeia, appear on the medals which remain. They had another pro-perty, that of assisting the tincture extracted from vegetable dyes, and imparting towool its richest purple. Besides its hot springs, Hierapolis was distinguished by a very remarkable and dele-terious exhalation, called very properly, plutonium, as appertaining to the key of theinfernal regions. This was a small excavation in an adjoining mountain, having an areabefore it of four or five hundred yards in circumference. This space was always filledwith a dense vapour, so that the bottom could not be discerned. Like the modern Grottodel Cane, this vapour was mortal to those who breathed it; bulls and other animalswere driven into the enclosure, and immediately fell down suffocated; and birds, as atAverno, dropped senseless when attempting to fly across it. The priests of Cybele,availing themselves of this mephitic cavern, pretended to work a miracle. They a
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