122 Dr. Kennedy Bailie's Researches amongst the inscribed Monuments 



so brief, would evidently not have admitted my forming any collection worth 

 mentioning of such treasures. I was soon, however, relieved from my fetters, 

 by the extreme kindness of his Grace, who, in consideration of the object which 

 I had in view, relaxed his parting injunction : for a letter that awaited my return 

 from Pergamus, announced the gratifying intelligence, that my term of absence 

 had been doubled; a great boon to a traveller in those regions, in which 

 twenty-five or thirty miles is the ordinary length of a day's journey, and no faci- 

 lities exist for expediting his movements beyond that limit ; and, I must add 

 also, eminently characteristic of the personage who conferred it. 



I now proceed to enter somewhat more precisely into my details. I believe 

 I have already mentioned, that the order which I mean to observe is that of my 

 visits to the respective sites ; a choice more agreeable to my recollections, and 

 as fit as any other, perhaps, for presenting my acquisitions to the Academy. I 

 now speak with reference to the Apocalyptic cities, reserving to myself the 

 liberty of deviating from this rule in the case of others of less moment. I mean, 

 however, in all cases, to classify each separate series, so as to avoid the chaotic 

 jumble which one meets almost invariably in travellers' collections, as also, 

 where the state of the monument at all admits it, to give a general outline of 

 its contents. 



II. Ephesus, at which celebrated site I arrived on the eighth of September, 

 1840, and where I commenced my labours in this department of research, fur- 

 nished me with three. I could have had more, but I made choice of those 

 which I had some reason to suppose had been little known or noticed before. I 

 copied them from a cubical block of marble which lay half concealed in the 

 midst of some agnus castus on the left-hand side of the road that skirts the cita- 

 del (called by the Turks Alasaluk), and conducts to the lower town, if it be 

 not a misnomer to apply the term to that wretched vestibule to the splendid ruins 

 which overspread the valley of Coressus. 



Each of the three inscriptions to which I now refer is mutilated, the intro- 

 ductory matter, or, as they may be termed, the preambles, being in a great 

 measure wanting. This defect has arisen from the block of marble, on three 

 faces of which they had been engraved, having passed, most probably, through 

 the hands of some mason ; I shall not say Turkish ; for I regret to be obliged to 

 remark, that the degenerate representatives of the ancient possessors of the 



