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DISCOVERIES AT EPHESUS.
Close of
season.
stance was more or less favourable to the interests of the
excavations, as they would report of one another; but it
was the cause of many a quarrel, in which I was often
called upon to interfere. One day the cavass so far lost
his temper that he struck the ganger a severe blow with
his stick ; I punished him by taking not only his stick from
him, but his sword also, in the presence of all the work-
men. This humiliating act had the desired effect, and he
kept a better watch over himself ever after.
The season closed this year May ioth. An area
of about 210 feet by 130 feet had been explored to
as great a depth as the water standing in the excava-
tions would allow. The heavy rains had been very un-
favourable for the excavations. Early in the year the
water stood so high that it was impossible to dig to a
greater depth than 15 feet below the surface, whereas
most of the stones composing the debris of the Temple
rested on the pavement at an average depth of 22 feet.
The latter months of the season were therefore em-
ployed in preparing ground over a large area for full
exploration to the level of the pavement in the autumn, by
which time the water would sink. With the discovery of
the column in situ, and the masonry supporting the steps,
together with the foundation-piers and walls, which crave
me the intercolumniations on the south flank, I was
obliged to content myself as the result of the season's
operations ; and fearing that I might not return to con-
tinue the excavations as I intended in the autumn, I
sowed the banks with the seed of the Eucalyptus globu-
losa (the blue gum tree), closed the doors of my maga-
DISCOVERIES AT EPHESUS.
Close of
season.
stance was more or less favourable to the interests of the
excavations, as they would report of one another; but it
was the cause of many a quarrel, in which I was often
called upon to interfere. One day the cavass so far lost
his temper that he struck the ganger a severe blow with
his stick ; I punished him by taking not only his stick from
him, but his sword also, in the presence of all the work-
men. This humiliating act had the desired effect, and he
kept a better watch over himself ever after.
The season closed this year May ioth. An area
of about 210 feet by 130 feet had been explored to
as great a depth as the water standing in the excava-
tions would allow. The heavy rains had been very un-
favourable for the excavations. Early in the year the
water stood so high that it was impossible to dig to a
greater depth than 15 feet below the surface, whereas
most of the stones composing the debris of the Temple
rested on the pavement at an average depth of 22 feet.
The latter months of the season were therefore em-
ployed in preparing ground over a large area for full
exploration to the level of the pavement in the autumn, by
which time the water would sink. With the discovery of
the column in situ, and the masonry supporting the steps,
together with the foundation-piers and walls, which crave
me the intercolumniations on the south flank, I was
obliged to content myself as the result of the season's
operations ; and fearing that I might not return to con-
tinue the excavations as I intended in the autumn, I
sowed the banks with the seed of the Eucalyptus globu-
losa (the blue gum tree), closed the doors of my maga-