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DISCOVERIES AT EPHESUS.

Another

Roman

building.

was an able surgeon on board the yacht, in the person of
Mr. Venning. One other gentleman, Captain Hawker,
completed this most agreeable party. But I feared that
if we once went on board the yacht, the time of our
return to Ephesus would become a matter of uncer-
tainty, although Lord Downshire very kindly promised
to put us ashore whenever and wherever I pleased. I
feared also that the excavations would not go on so well in
my absence, and as I believed myself to be on the point
of finding the Temple, J reluctantly declined the invita-
tion, which man)- of my friends strongly urged me to ac-
cept, and which would have afforded me an opportunity
not likely to occur again.

Meanwhile the excavations proceeded steadily. I had
imagined that the lone ranee of Roman buildings, where
I had found the mosaic pavements, must flank cither the
Temple itself or an open space in front of it. 1 there-
fore sank a number of deep trial holes southward, and
found at the distance of 445 feet the remains of another
Roman building, which was probably a small temple, and
was mounted on a stylobate of three marble steps. On
extending the exploration, I found a mutilated imperial
female statue, in white marble, life size, which, not being
worth the expense of removal, was left where it was dis-
covered, at the bottom of a deep excavation. As I came
across no remains of buildings in the ground between these
two Roman buildings, I concluded that it was an open
space in front of the Temple, which must now be sought
for beyond it, and I therefore put a number of men to work
in that direction. About this time we laid bare the re-