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60 MODERN DISCOVERIES AT ANCIENT EPHESUS.
raisins, and some fruit, such as an orange or an apple
occasionally, washed down by copious draughts of the
best water they could obtain, constituted their breakfast
at eight and their dinner at one o'clock. To their supper,
being their most sumptuous meal, were sometimes added
snail soup, thistle broth, boiled thistle stalks, dandelion,
and other wild vegetables. With this frugal diet their
strength was surprising, as proved by the fatigue they
endured, notwithstanding the unhealthiness of the climate,
and the great weights which they raised in their arms
or carried on their backs. The Turkish porters in
Smyrna, who also live most frugally, often carry from
400 to 6co pounds weight on their backs ; and a merchant
one day pointed out to me one of his men who had
carried an enormous bale of merchandise, weighing 800
pounds, up a steep incline into an upper warehouse.
In 1873 I was detained in England later than usual
because the Turkish authorities hesitated to renew my
firman ; it was at length renewed for another year, on
condition that no more firmans should be asked for,
and on September 15 I received marching orders. On
September 19 we left England, and arrived in Smyrna,
October 3, having been detained by unusually tem-
pestuous weather and a cyclone in the Straits of Messina,
and having been obliged to avoid Marseilles by fear of
quarantine at the end of our voyage.
On October 6 we went out to Ephesus, and a long
stretch of more than J 00 feet of the lowest step of the
platform was now discovered on the north side. This
was one of the ten steps described by Philo on which
the temple was raised ; it was barely eight inches high.
A space of six feet leading to this step was found in situ at
raisins, and some fruit, such as an orange or an apple
occasionally, washed down by copious draughts of the
best water they could obtain, constituted their breakfast
at eight and their dinner at one o'clock. To their supper,
being their most sumptuous meal, were sometimes added
snail soup, thistle broth, boiled thistle stalks, dandelion,
and other wild vegetables. With this frugal diet their
strength was surprising, as proved by the fatigue they
endured, notwithstanding the unhealthiness of the climate,
and the great weights which they raised in their arms
or carried on their backs. The Turkish porters in
Smyrna, who also live most frugally, often carry from
400 to 6co pounds weight on their backs ; and a merchant
one day pointed out to me one of his men who had
carried an enormous bale of merchandise, weighing 800
pounds, up a steep incline into an upper warehouse.
In 1873 I was detained in England later than usual
because the Turkish authorities hesitated to renew my
firman ; it was at length renewed for another year, on
condition that no more firmans should be asked for,
and on September 15 I received marching orders. On
September 19 we left England, and arrived in Smyrna,
October 3, having been detained by unusually tem-
pestuous weather and a cyclone in the Straits of Messina,
and having been obliged to avoid Marseilles by fear of
quarantine at the end of our voyage.
On October 6 we went out to Ephesus, and a long
stretch of more than J 00 feet of the lowest step of the
platform was now discovered on the north side. This
was one of the ten steps described by Philo on which
the temple was raised ; it was barely eight inches high.
A space of six feet leading to this step was found in situ at