Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1839-05-04

enfAred
by large and ruined gateway into a nl,c.
distinctly marked as having been street. and
from the broken columns strewed ON each
side, probably having been lined with col.
onade. / let my reins fall upon nv horses
neck; he moved abouy in the slow and desul.
tory way that suited my humor; now s,nk,ng
to his knees in heaps of rubbish, now stumb.
ling over Corlnthean capital, and now sliding
over marble pavement. The whole hillside
IS covered with ruins to an extent far greater
than | expected to find. and they are all of a
kind that tends to give a high idea Of the an
cient magnficence of the city. To me. these
ruins appeared 10 be confused and shapeless
mass; but they have been examined by an
tiquaries with great care, and the character
OF many of them identified with great Ger.
talnty. had, however, no time for details:
and, indeed the interest of these ruins in my
eyes was not In the details. Ii mattered lii
tie TO me that this was the s,adumand. that
fountain; that this was gymnasium and
that market-place; it was enough 10 knoa
that the broken columns. the Wondering
walls, the grass-grown streets, and the wide
extended scene of desolation and ruin around
me were all that remained of one of the great
est cities of Asia, one % the earliest Christian
cities in the world. But what do saye-
Who does not remember the tumult and CON
''Iest the temple of the great goddess Diana
should be despised, and her magniiicence be
des,royed;' and how the people, having
caught CaIius and Arisiarchus, Paul's com
panions IN travel" rushed with one accord
into the theatre, crying out "Great is Diana OF
the Ephesians? l sat among the ruins of that
theatre: the stiffness of death was around
me? far as the eye could reach, not living
soul was to be seen save my two companions
4 g. Il III -1C
fee-house in Aysalook. a man of strong inn
agina,ion might almost 60 wild with the inten-
sitv of his own reflections; and do not let il
surprise YOU, that even one like me, in nowise
given to illusions of the senses, should find him
self reused and irresisiibly hurried back 10 the
time when the shapeless and confused mass
around him formed one of the most magnifi-
cent cities in the world; when large and bu-
sy population was hurrying through IFS streets,
intent upon the same pleasures and the .ime
business that engage men now; that he should,
in imagination, see before him ST. Paul preach
ing to the Ephesians. shaking their faith ia
the gods of their fathers, gods made with their
own hands; and the noise and confusion, and
the people rushing unanimously up the very
steps where he sat; that he should almost hear
their cry ringing in his ears, ''Great is Diana
of the Ephesians;" and then that he should
turn from this scene of former glory and e.
ternal ruin to his own far distant land; a land
that the wisest of the Ephesians never dream
ed Of; where the wild man was striving will,
the wild beast, when the whole world rang
with the greatness of the Ephesian name; and
which bids fair to be growing greater and
greater when the last ves,ige OF Ephesus
shall be gone and its very size unknown
But where is the temple of the great Diana,
the temple two hundred and twenty years m
.Id...a-, the temple of one hundred and TWEEN
lv-seven columns. each column the gift Of 4
kingl Can it be that the temple of the 'Grea,
goddess DIANA was the ornament of Asia,
the pride of Ephesus, and one of the seven
wonders Of the world, has gone, and not lef,
4 trace behind? AS n traveller, would fam
be able to say that have seen the ruins OF
his temple; but unfortunately, am obliged to
INIT myself by facts.--Stephens' Trarels in
Turkey, &c.