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SOUTH OF LYDIA.

PRIENE.----SANSOON.—THUNDER-STOEM.—NATUEAL HISTOEY.—CHANLY.

—SCALA NTJOVA.----EPHESUS.----ITS EEMAINS.----IDIN, THE ANCIENT

TEALLES.—A MAEKET-DAY.----VALLEY OF THE MEANDER.

May 1st.—The Greek village of Sansoon is prettily placed'
house above house, upon the rocky slopes of the mountain,
and commands a splendid view of the valley and lake
which we had passed. An horizon of beautiful mountains,
rising behind richly-wooded hills, gives bounds to the plains
below.

Within a mile of Sansoon towards the sea, and upon a
bolder and more precipitous rock, stood the ancient Priene.
The admirable choice of situation for these two towns shows
that the taste of their ancestors is inherited by the modern
Greeks. The Turkish village of Sansoon, which lies in the
valley a mile below, is now for the most part in ruins, and at
this season is wholly deserted by its inhabitants for their
tents in the hills. The villagers of the Greek Sansoon soon
came within their legal quarantine distance to learn our
wants, and on my return from a walk I found my servant
gossiping with thirty or forty wondering and intelligent
hearers who stood around him. These inhabitants were all
employed in spinning, winding, or working in some way, and



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