Identifier: arcticsunbeamsor02coxs (find matches)
Title: Arctic sunbeams: or, From Broadway to the Bosphorus, by way of the North Cape
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Cox, Samuel Sullivan, 1824-1889
Subjects: Europe -- Description and travel Middle East -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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d, as the surveys show, lies between theagorae, or market-places, and the port, since filledup. The great agora is nearer the port and nextto the theatre. This acfora was the assemblacfe-place for the people. Corinthian columns, of whichfragments lie about in great disorder, here formeda superb colonnade, while statues of the greatGreeks and benefactors of Ephesus once lined theway. It is said that Antony here held a court ofjustice, and rushed out of it to pay court to Cle-opatra, who was on a visit and happened to passthat way in her litter. We did not ascend MountCoressus. We saw it plainly enough, and itsgreat beauty, when clothed in verdure and coveredwith temples, was only equaled by its rival mount-ain. Mount Prion. Between them lie the odeon andtheatre. A stream once played between theserocky acclivities, and the old walls ran over them. As we trudged on and stumbled over the roughdebris and amidst the hioh o-rass and weeds, hold-ing our animals and our umbrellas, I could not,
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DIANA KIHUSIA (iN TUB Ml&BtM AT NAlI.Es). EPHESUS—HER DIVINITIES AND HER DIVINITY. 223 being behind, help noticing the unromantic andirreverent performance of my wifes mule. He wasaware of the inutilities of his meagre tail in fly-time ; and, like his American cousin, he used hisheels with ofood effect—sometimes all four in theair at a time, and all directed at one fly. Thiscaused us both much amusement, though it madethe position on his back decidedly irksome, if notdangerous. My wife called a halt near the walls;and, remembering her experience in the Yosemite,arranged herself as an equestrienne a la squaw.This being satisfactory, and our minds fixed on thetheatre (Acts xix. 29), made memorable by theriotous outcry against Paul, we were proceedingdown the rugged and tangled path, when a smallcaravan of nine camels and three baby camels filledthe archway. They were driven by two Arabs andloaded with straw; so that, if they had been posedfor a picture in modern Ephesus, with th

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