The modern traveller: A popular description, geographical, historical and topographical, of the various countries of the globe. ...James Duncan; Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, M. Ogle, Glasgow; and R.M. Tims, Dublin, 1824 - Middle East - 372 pages |
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Page 128 - the inhabitants are a few Greek peasants, living in extreme wretchedness, dependence, and insensibility ; the representatives of an illustrious people, and inhabiting the wreck of their greatness — some in the substructions of the glorious edifices which they raised — some beneath the vaults of the stadium, once the crowded scene of their diversions — and some by the abrupt precipice in the sepulchres which received their ashes.
Page 12 - ... greatest quantity of ruins we had ever seen, all of white marble, and beyond them, towards the Euphrates, a flat waste, as far as the eye could reach, without any object which showed either life or motion. It is scarcely possible to imagine anything more striking than this view: so great a number of Corinthian pillars, mixed with SO little wall or solid building, afforded a most romantic variety of prospect.
Page 128 - Its streets are obscured and overgrown. A herd of goats was driven to it for shelter from the sun at noon, and a noisy flight of crows from the quarries seemed to insult its silence. We heard the partridge call in the area of the theatre and the stadium.
Page 152 - Our eye has affected our hearts, while we saw around us the ruins of this once splendid city, with nothing now to be seen, but a few mud huts, inhabited by ignorant, stupid, filthy, Turks; and the only men, who bear the Christian name, at work all day in their mill. Every thing seems, as if God had cursed the place, and left it to the dominion of Satan.
Page 165 - Thyatira is situated near a small river, a branch of the Caicus, in the centre of an extensive plain. At the distance of three or four miles it is almost completely surrounded by mountains.
Page 98 - Alexander was such as the ancient founders commonly preferred. Their cities in general were seated by some hill or mountain, which, as this did, supplied them with marble, and was commodious as well for defence as ornament. The side or slope afforded a secure foundation for the seats of the stadium and theatres, lessening both the labour and expense ; it displayed the public and private structures, which rose from its quarry, to advantage, and rendered the view as captivating as noble. The Greeks...
Page 22 - Rome, and flourished more than one hundred and fifty years in the subordinate though honorable rank of a colony. It was during that peaceful period, if we may judge from a few remaining inscriptions, that the wealthy...
Page 38 - I take to be the work of art, are drawn round, one to the right hand, and the other to the left, on the borders of the gardens, into which they are let as they pass by little currents, and so dispersed all over the vast wood, insomuch that there is not a garden but has a fine quick stream running through it...
Page 196 - Beneath, near the bottom, are several stones inscribed, but not legible. By the isthmus is the vaulted substruction of a considerable edifice ; and on a jamb of the doorway are decrees engraved in a fair character, but damaged, and black with smoke ; the entrance, which is lessened by a pile of stones, serving as a chimney to a few Greeks who inhabit the ruin.
Page 98 - Anatolia, and extolled by the ancients under the title of ' the lovely, the crown of Ionia, the ornament of Asia,' braves the reiterated efforts of conflagrations and earthquakes. Ten times destroyed, she has ten times risen from her ruins with new splendour.