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CLOSE OF NARRATIVE.
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excavation on the site of the Temple of Diana, and as we
left the spot slowly and lingeringly we looked back fre-
quently at the beautiful scene, which had had such a fas-
cination for us, and which had been for so many years
associated with our united labours.
Mrs. Wood's best exertions had been used in doing
all she could to alleviate the sufferings of the workmen |
and the villagers, and her skill and care were proved by
the fact that of hundreds of workmen only two or three
were obliged to be sent down to Smyrna to be treated in
the hospitals by skilled doctors.
As for me, the task I had set myself had been per-
formed. The situation, plan, and particular characteristics
of the long-lost Temple had been discovered, and all
that remained of it within the area cleared out had been
secured for our national collection of antiquities.
At Smyrna, where for so many years we had expe-
rienced so'much kindness, we parted from our friends
With deep regret, cheered, however, by the belief that
we should one day return and see them all again, and
Perhaps renew the work so abruptly stopped, for had
^re not drunk freely of the Fasoolah water?1
' They say in Smyrna that all who drink the waters of this «P**J£
^■rc to return to Smj ma sooner or later. The fact .s that all people who
have for any length of time breathed the fresh, light a,r fj^tt^*™
Aere found'kind friends amongst the inhabitants, arc glad to return,
fo>- a few days.
285
excavation on the site of the Temple of Diana, and as we
left the spot slowly and lingeringly we looked back fre-
quently at the beautiful scene, which had had such a fas-
cination for us, and which had been for so many years
associated with our united labours.
Mrs. Wood's best exertions had been used in doing
all she could to alleviate the sufferings of the workmen |
and the villagers, and her skill and care were proved by
the fact that of hundreds of workmen only two or three
were obliged to be sent down to Smyrna to be treated in
the hospitals by skilled doctors.
As for me, the task I had set myself had been per-
formed. The situation, plan, and particular characteristics
of the long-lost Temple had been discovered, and all
that remained of it within the area cleared out had been
secured for our national collection of antiquities.
At Smyrna, where for so many years we had expe-
rienced so'much kindness, we parted from our friends
With deep regret, cheered, however, by the belief that
we should one day return and see them all again, and
Perhaps renew the work so abruptly stopped, for had
^re not drunk freely of the Fasoolah water?1
' They say in Smyrna that all who drink the waters of this «P**J£
^■rc to return to Smj ma sooner or later. The fact .s that all people who
have for any length of time breathed the fresh, light a,r fj^tt^*™
Aere found'kind friends amongst the inhabitants, arc glad to return,
fo>- a few days.