Excerpt from Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Epistles of Paul to the Ephesians, Philippians, and Colossians There is now a small and mean village, named Ayasaluk, near the site of the ancient town, consisting of a few cottages, which is all that now represents this city of ancient splendour. Dr. Chavolla says, the in habitants are a few Greek peasants, living in extreme wretchednes, de pendence, and insensibility; the representatives of an illustrious people, and inhabiting the wreck of their greatnem - eome in the substructtons of the glorious edifices which they raised - some beneath the vaults of the stadium, once the crowded scene of their diversions - and some by the abrupt precipice in the sepulchres which received their ashes. Its streets are obmured and overgrown. A herd of ts was driven to it fbr shelter from the sun at noon, and a. Noisy fiig t of crows from the quarries seemed to insult its silence. We heard the partridge call in the area of the theatre and the stadium. The glorious pomp of its heathen worship is no longer numbered; and Christianity, which was here nursed by apostles, and fostered by general councils, until it increased to fulnem of stature, barely lingers on in an existence hardly visible. Travels, pt. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.