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DISCOVERIES AT EPIIESUS.
Works
stopped
by the
Turks.
The
Prince
and
Princess
of Wales.
ceal a man on horseback. I could not venture to cut the
barley, as I had not the means to compensate the pro-
prietors or occupiers of the land, and the admission of
their claims might have brought upon me a large number
of demands, for holes and trenches left open in the ground
already explored. I took advantage of a modern boun-
dary between two barley fields, to trace the road for
several hundred feet. Looking onward in the direction
which it took. I found it pointed towards some large
olive trees which grew by the side of a modern boun-
dary, more than half a mile distant, where I had before
sunk a trial hole without any satisfactory result, the
sand and stones having fallen in before the hole had
been sunk to a sufficient depth.
I determined now to venture the small sum total oi
my balance in hand upon one or two trenches near the
olive trees, and as many trial holes, in the ground
between them and the foot of the mountain, as the inter-
mediate boundaries might allow. But I had scarcely be-
gun to act upon this resolution, when the Mudir, having
an eye to the contents of a large sarcophagus found near
the Coressian Gate, stopped the excavations, under the pre-
tence that my firman required renewal. This was a most
provoking interruption, but there was no remedy but to
go at once to Constantinople, and obtain the renewal of my
firman for another year.
The Prince and Princess of Wales were then at the
Turkish capital, and there seemed little hope of my
affairs being attended to; but through the good offices of
Sir Henry Eliott, our Ambassador at Constantinople. I
Works
stopped
by the
Turks.
The
Prince
and
Princess
of Wales.
ceal a man on horseback. I could not venture to cut the
barley, as I had not the means to compensate the pro-
prietors or occupiers of the land, and the admission of
their claims might have brought upon me a large number
of demands, for holes and trenches left open in the ground
already explored. I took advantage of a modern boun-
dary between two barley fields, to trace the road for
several hundred feet. Looking onward in the direction
which it took. I found it pointed towards some large
olive trees which grew by the side of a modern boun-
dary, more than half a mile distant, where I had before
sunk a trial hole without any satisfactory result, the
sand and stones having fallen in before the hole had
been sunk to a sufficient depth.
I determined now to venture the small sum total oi
my balance in hand upon one or two trenches near the
olive trees, and as many trial holes, in the ground
between them and the foot of the mountain, as the inter-
mediate boundaries might allow. But I had scarcely be-
gun to act upon this resolution, when the Mudir, having
an eye to the contents of a large sarcophagus found near
the Coressian Gate, stopped the excavations, under the pre-
tence that my firman required renewal. This was a most
provoking interruption, but there was no remedy but to
go at once to Constantinople, and obtain the renewal of my
firman for another year.
The Prince and Princess of Wales were then at the
Turkish capital, and there seemed little hope of my
affairs being attended to; but through the good offices of
Sir Henry Eliott, our Ambassador at Constantinople. I