been made with fpirit of vitriol. The waters, though hot, were
ufed in agriculture.
T ameriake, when he invaded this country, encamped for
the fummer at Tanguzlik, where many of his men were destroyed
by drinking of a fpring, which Stagnated and petrified.
I Should have fuppofed that place to have been Hierapolisj but
other hot waters, with a.fimilar cliff, will be mentioned in a following
chapter. The Turkish name Pambouk Signifies cotton,
and, it has been laid, refers to the whitenefs of the incrustation.
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T he Shepherd-poet of Smyrna, after mentioning a cave in
Phrygia facred to the Nymphs, relates, that there Luna had once
•defcended from the Sky to Endymion, while he was Sleeping by
his herds j that marks of their bed were then extant under the
oaks; and that in the thickets around it the milk of cows had
been fpilt, which men Still beheld with admiration; for, fuch
was the appearance, i f you faw it very far off; but, that from
■ thence flowed clear or warm water, which in a little while concreted
round about the channels, and formed a Slone pavement,
The writer defcribes the cliff of Hierapolis, if I millake not;
,as in his time; and has added a local flory, current when he
lived. It was the genius of the people to unite fiction with
truth j and, as in this and other inftances, to dignify the tales
o f their mythology with fabulous evidence, taken from the natural
wonders, in which their country abounded.
C H A P . LXIX.
Remains o f Hierapolis — ‘The theatre — Antient manner of fitting
Ufe of the hot waters----The pool — The Plutonium — Our
difappointment.
W E aScended in the morning to the ruins, which are on a
flat, palling by fepulchres with infcriptions, and entering the
city from the eaft. We had foon the theatre on our right hand,
and the pool between us and the cliff. Opposite to it, near the
margin of the cliff, is the remain of an amazing Structure, once
perhaps baths, or, as we conjectured, a gymnafium j the huge
vaults of the roof Striking horror as we rode underneath. Beyond
it is the mean ruin of a modern fortrefs ; and farther on,
are maflive walls'of edifices, feveral of them leaning from their
perpendicular, the Slones distorted, and Seeming every moment
ready to fall, the effects and evidences of violent and repeated
earthquakes. In a recefs of the mountain on the right hand is
the area of a Stadium. Then again fepulchres Succeed, fome
nearly buried in the mountain-lide, and one, a Square building,
with an inscription in large letters. All thefe remains are plain,
and of Slone. The Site has been computed about two hundred
paces wide, and a mile in length.
After taking a general furvey, we returned to the theatre,
intending to copy infcriptions and examine more particularly, as
we changed our Station. We found this a very large and Sumptuous
flrudture, and the leaSl ruined of any we had feen. Part
of the profcenium is Standing. In the heap, which lies in con-
fufion, are many fculptures well executed in baffo relievo; with
pieces of architrave inicribed, but disjointed j or fo encumbered
with maflive marbles, that we could colled from them no information.
The character is large and bold, with ligatures. The
marble feats are Still unremoved. The numerous ranges are di-
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