. New Testament hours. Anc ent Ephesus. far-off horizon, by hills and mountaims, which often runinto the valleys or plains themselves, breaking them upinto lovely green bays and long-drawn recesses. Thedry, or nearly dry, beds of streams, swollen and stormyenough, no doubt, during the winter storms, are crossedand recrossed, and the country gradually rises into atableland characteristic of the interior of Asia Minor as THE REVELATION OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE 191 a whole. ISTear Smyrna, pleasant houses dot the bordersof the line, but the population beyond the suburbs verysoon becomes painfully sm
. New Testament hours. Anc ent Ephesus. far-off horizon, by hills and mountaims, which often runinto the valleys or plains themselves, breaking them upinto lovely green bays and long-drawn recesses. Thedry, or nearly dry, beds of streams, swollen and stormyenough, no doubt, during the winter storms, are crossedand recrossed, and the country gradually rises into atableland characteristic of the interior of Asia Minor as THE REVELATION OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE 191 a whole. ISTear Smyrna, pleasant houses dot the bordersof the line, but the population beyond the suburbs verysoon becomes painfully small. Scarcely any one passed,though, here and there, a few people were at work in thefields, especially round the poor villages that now andthen varied the general solitude. There is no forest, and. Site of Ephesus. {From a Photograph by Rev. Dr. F. Tremlett.) few timber trees, but the surpassing wealth of the soilwas everywhere evident in rich shrubbery, wide grassyexpanses, and, where there was cultivation, in wide vineand olive yards, and a wealth of mighty fig-trees, white-blossomed almonds, and pomegranates, or other crops of grain were as yet green; the beans and green 192 THE APOCALYPS. legumes, pleasant to see. At times, near Smyrna, largeherds of cattle, goodly to look upon as any in England,and great flocks of sheep and goats, told what might havebeen seen everywhere had there been people to tend orown them. But for miles before the point at which thetrain stopped, the landscape became more and more deso-late. Everywhere, wild nature had resumed possessionof what, in Eoman times, had been the richest provinceof the empire. Long tracts had been left to becomeswamps, morasses, or shallow lakes, dotted over withclumps of bulrushes, and haunted by flights of
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