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At the temple we were joined by our fervants, who had led our
horfes down on the fide oppofite to that which we afcended; and
with them came the fat J&ffizaryv who had very wifely fneaked
off on perceiving our intention.
T he temple of Minerva Poliae, though proflrate, was a remain
of Ionian elegance and grandeur too curious to be haflily
or flightly examined. An account of its, With a view and plates
o f the architeSare, 'has been publiffied at the expenfe of the
Society of Dilettanti. Whfcn entire, it overlooked the -city,
Which Was feated on the fide Of the 'mountain, fiat -beneath hat,
in gradation, to the edge of the plain. The areas are levelled,
and the -communication prefetved by heps cut in the hopes»
Below the temple are broken columns, and pieces of marble, the
remnants of edifices of the Ionic -and Doric ordets. Farther
down is the.groimd-phit of the fladium, by the city-wall. The
area was narrow, and the feats ranged only on the fide facing the
plain. In the-mountain, on the left hand, .goingfrom the temple,
is the tecefs, with fome vefliges, of the theatre. Among
the rubbifh and fcattered marbles is an infcription, -with a fragmented
two, -and ruins of churches, but « o -Wells Or tnofques us
at Miletus. The whole circuit of the wall of the city is Banding,
befides feveial portions within it Worthy of admiration for
their folidity and beauty. I t defcends on each-fide of the precipice,
and is the boundary next the plain.
Pr ie -n-e, not including the acropolis,--had three.,gate-ways.
One-is toward -Kelibefh, and has without it vaults of fepulchres.
The entrance was not wide. A paft of the arch, confifling of
a Angle row o f maffive Bones, Bill remains; but thofeon which
it reflsare fo corroded by age, broken, or diflorted, as to fee®
every moment ready to yield and let down their load. A-rugged
way leads to a fecond opening in the wall oppofite to this, and
as we guelfed, about a mile from i t ; beyond which are likewifb
vaults of fepulchres. Between thefe was a gatefacing the plain;
and on the left hand going out of it is a hole, refembling the
mouth
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tnouth of an oven, in the fide of a fquare tower; and over it
an infcription in fmall characters exceedingly difficult to be read.
Jt fignifies, that a certain Cyprian, in his flpep, had beheld
Ceres and Proferpine, arrayed in white; and that in three vifions
they had enjoined the worffiip of a hero, the guardian of the
city, and pointed out the place, where in obedience, to them he
had eredted the god. This was probably fome local hero, whole
little image was let in the wall, and whofe name and memory
have periffied.
T he modem hiflory of Priene, as well as of Miletus, is very
imperfect. It is now called Samfun and Sa®fun-kalefi, which
names feem not very recent. Samfun is among the places
taken in 1391 by Bajazet, who fubdued all Ionia.
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Mount 'Eitanus •— Rocks in the plain -rr ‘The Maandei Entangled
on the mountain -r-Benighted— Arrive at Myus.
W E have mentioned in a preceding chapter, that on Gallefus
we faw the craggy tops of a diflant mountain, which, being
weather-worn, were of a whitiffi fluffing afpect. Thefe continued
long vifible in various parts of the country, and often far
remote. The antient name of that ridge was Titanus, and taken
from the colour as refembling chalk. Beneath it on the fouth-
fide, by a lake, is Bafi or Capoumoulu, fix hours, as we were
told, from Kelibefli. The Greek our hofl undertook to conduct
us thither.
W e left the village on the fifteenth of April at feven in the
morning. We found the torrent-bed, which occafioned our perplexity
in going to Miletus, lefs formidable here, croffing it by a
-wooden (bridge made for foot-paffengers. It had received fome
■ water from-the late rains,-which had alfo flooded the plain at the
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