with colonnades. The other remains are perhaps of the arfenals,
and of the public treafury, the prifon, and the like buildings,
Which in the Greek cities were ufually placed by the agora.
W e are now at the end of the ftreet, and near the entrance
of the valley between Prion and Coriflus. Here turning toward
the fea, you have the Agora on the right hand; on the left,
the doping fide of Coriflus, and prefently the proftrate heap of
a temple, which fronted 22” eaft of north. The length was
about one hundred and thirty feet, the breadth eighty. The
cell or nave was conftrudled with large coarfe ftones. The portico
was marble, of the corinthian order. This was a temple in
Antis or of the Euftyle Ipecies, and had four columns between
the ants. Their diameter is four feet and about fix inches;
their length thirty nine feet two inches, but including the bafe
and capital forty fix feet and more than feven inches. The lhafts
were fluted, and, though their dimenfions are fo great, each of one
Hone. The moft entire o f them is broken into two pieces. On
the frieze was carved a bold foliage with boys. The ornaments
in general are extremely rich, but much injured. This perhaps
was the temple eredted at Ephefus by permiflion of Auguftus
Caefar to the God Julius, or that dedicated to Claudius Caefar on
his Apotheofis.
A b o u t a mile farther on is a root of Coriflus running out
toward the plain and ending in an abrupt precipice, which has a
fquare tower, one of many belonging to the city-wall, ftanding
on it. We rode to it along the mountain-fide, but that way is
ileep and flippery. Near it are remnants of a fumptuous edifice,
and among the bufhes beneath we found an altar of white marble.
This eminence commands a lovely profpedt of the river
Cayfter, which there crofles the plain from near Gallefus, with
a fmall but full ftream, and With many luxuriant maeanders.
T he extent o f the city toward the plain, on which fide it was
waihed by the Cayfter, cannot now be afcertained •, but the
mounmountainous
region has preferved its boundary, the wall eredted
by Lyfimachus, which is of the mafonry termed Ifodomum, and
may be traced from behind the ftadium over mount Prion, ftanding
often above twenty feet high. It crofled the valley in which is
a piece, with ruined piers of a gate-way, the ftones regularly
placed, large, rough, and hard. From thence it afeended mount
Coriflus, and is feen ranging along the lofty brow, almoft entire,
except near the precipice, where it ceafes. On mount Prion,
which I rambled quite over, are like wife remnants of an exterior
wall. This, from its direction, feems to have defcended, and
inclofed the Gymnafium, which was without the city j forming
a pomoerium by uniting with the wall on Coriflus, which begins
from a precipice beyond the valley.
T he avenues of the antient cities were commonly befet with
fepulchres. The vaults of thefe edifices, ftripped of their marble,
occur near the entrance of Ephefus from Aiafaluck, where was
once a gate; and again by the Gymnafium both on Prion and
Coriflus 5 on each fide of the approach to the gate in the valley:
and alfo about the abrupt precipice, without the city-wall. The
vaults along the Hope of Coriflus, in the way thither, Ihow that
the Ephefians buried likewife within the city; and it is recorded,
that a Sophift, a Milefian, was interred in the agora, in the principal
part of Ephefus, where he had lived. The gate next the fea
was that by the precipice, from which, going on at the bottom,
you come to a gap in mount Coriflus, cut, it is likely, to open
a commodious way to Neapolis, now Scala Nova, and to the
places on the coaft. The gate toward Smyrna was probably in
the plain ; for the antient road was over Gallefus.
M o u n t Prion is among the curiofities of Ionia enumerated.
by Paufanias. It has ferved as an inexhauftible magazine
of marble, and contributed largely to the magnificence of the
city. The Ephefians, it is related, when they firft refolved to
provide an edifice worthy of their Diana, were met to agree on
importing materials. The quarries then in ufe were remote, and
the