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PHYGELA.
[Chap, xxxii.
lies off the point, and serves to protect the roadstead, which
is exposed to the N. and W.
The following morning we landed, and, having engaged
horses, started for Ephesus, where, trusting to the continu-
ance of fine weather, during which the yacht would be safe
off Scala Nuova, we proposed remaining three or four days.
Leaving the city, we passed the mutilated marble figure of
a lion built into the walls, and then quitting the seashore,
we soon ascended a low range of hills partly cultivated, until
we reached the hard blue marble rocks. Again descending
by a broad and cultivated valley we saw traces of a long
aqueduct on the hill to our right, following all the sinuo-
sities of the broken ground : a little lower down we passed
a wall of similar construction carried across the road, and
apparently of Byzantine or Turkish origin. This is also
called an aqueduct, but how far it is connected with that along
the side of the hill we could not ascertain. A mile or two
farther we reached the ruins of the ancient city of Phygela,
on the rocky ground to our left, and close to where the
road descends to the beach. Its site is covered with frag-
ments of Roman tiles and pottery, and near the road is the
foundation of a large marble building, apparently a tem-
ple. Again quitting the beach, we crossed a small plain,
with a marshy lake on our left, at the end of which a
cafe marks the half way between Scala Nuova and Aiasa-
luck. Here two roads separated, the one on the right
leading to Aiasaluck, the other along the seashore to Co-
lophon, Lebedus, and Teos. A bad and stony road, with
the aqueduct still on our right, soon brought us to the
summit of the ridge, whence we had a fine view of the sea-
coast to the north, the mouth of the Cayster, and beyond it
the Selinusian lake, with a narrow strip of marshy land
between the mountains and the sea. Some ruins of an
ancient town, discovered in this neighbourhood by Captain
Graves, have been attributed to Ortygia, but, according to
Pliny,* this was only another name for Ephesus. Descend-
* Hist. Nat., 5. 31.
PHYGELA.
[Chap, xxxii.
lies off the point, and serves to protect the roadstead, which
is exposed to the N. and W.
The following morning we landed, and, having engaged
horses, started for Ephesus, where, trusting to the continu-
ance of fine weather, during which the yacht would be safe
off Scala Nuova, we proposed remaining three or four days.
Leaving the city, we passed the mutilated marble figure of
a lion built into the walls, and then quitting the seashore,
we soon ascended a low range of hills partly cultivated, until
we reached the hard blue marble rocks. Again descending
by a broad and cultivated valley we saw traces of a long
aqueduct on the hill to our right, following all the sinuo-
sities of the broken ground : a little lower down we passed
a wall of similar construction carried across the road, and
apparently of Byzantine or Turkish origin. This is also
called an aqueduct, but how far it is connected with that along
the side of the hill we could not ascertain. A mile or two
farther we reached the ruins of the ancient city of Phygela,
on the rocky ground to our left, and close to where the
road descends to the beach. Its site is covered with frag-
ments of Roman tiles and pottery, and near the road is the
foundation of a large marble building, apparently a tem-
ple. Again quitting the beach, we crossed a small plain,
with a marshy lake on our left, at the end of which a
cafe marks the half way between Scala Nuova and Aiasa-
luck. Here two roads separated, the one on the right
leading to Aiasaluck, the other along the seashore to Co-
lophon, Lebedus, and Teos. A bad and stony road, with
the aqueduct still on our right, soon brought us to the
summit of the ridge, whence we had a fine view of the sea-
coast to the north, the mouth of the Cayster, and beyond it
the Selinusian lake, with a narrow strip of marshy land
between the mountains and the sea. Some ruins of an
ancient town, discovered in this neighbourhood by Captain
Graves, have been attributed to Ortygia, but, according to
Pliny,* this was only another name for Ephesus. Descend-
* Hist. Nat., 5. 31.