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Accident.
must have become due after the expiration of Mr. Whit-
tall's term. I therefore never saw him, but I was after-
wards told that he had complained of my having taken
possession without his sanction.
As I could not afford to increase the number of my
workmen beyond eighteen or twenty, the work of explo-
ration proceeded very slowly, and more than five months
passed before I felt quite satisfied that the site of the
Temple was not to be found between the city and the sea.
I had approached nearer to the city, and had even tried
a large mound on the north side of the City Port, as
well as a considerable tract of land to the north of the
city.
The excavations had been very much impeded by an
accident, which prevented my visiting Ephesus during
the month of September. This accident befell me in
the cause of science. I had promised Dr. Birch, of the
British Museum, before I left England, that I would try
to obtain a cast, or a copy of some kind, of the bas-
relief of Sesostris, which is carved on the perpendicular
face of a white marble rock at Ninfi. I found that the
cast was impracticable, but I made a careful drawing
from measurements of every part, and returning home
alone at night, I missed my road. My horse fell with
me into a dry ditch ; my collar bone was broken by the
fall, and I was otherwise injured. During the month
of September I was confined to the house by this
accident, and that month proved the hottest of the
whole year. I was obliged, during my absence from
the works at Ephesus, to depute others to look after
must have become due after the expiration of Mr. Whit-
tall's term. I therefore never saw him, but I was after-
wards told that he had complained of my having taken
possession without his sanction.
As I could not afford to increase the number of my
workmen beyond eighteen or twenty, the work of explo-
ration proceeded very slowly, and more than five months
passed before I felt quite satisfied that the site of the
Temple was not to be found between the city and the sea.
I had approached nearer to the city, and had even tried
a large mound on the north side of the City Port, as
well as a considerable tract of land to the north of the
city.
The excavations had been very much impeded by an
accident, which prevented my visiting Ephesus during
the month of September. This accident befell me in
the cause of science. I had promised Dr. Birch, of the
British Museum, before I left England, that I would try
to obtain a cast, or a copy of some kind, of the bas-
relief of Sesostris, which is carved on the perpendicular
face of a white marble rock at Ninfi. I found that the
cast was impracticable, but I made a careful drawing
from measurements of every part, and returning home
alone at night, I missed my road. My horse fell with
me into a dry ditch ; my collar bone was broken by the
fall, and I was otherwise injured. During the month
of September I was confined to the house by this
accident, and that month proved the hottest of the
whole year. I was obliged, during my absence from
the works at Ephesus, to depute others to look after