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T Ernest L. Harris 

 HE LITTLE 



INTERIOR OF A MONASTERY OX THE ISLAXD OF CHIOi 



TOWX OF KASTRO 



Its walls and alcoves are packed with the skeletons of the Chians who were massacred 

 in this neighborhood by the Turks in 1822. It is claimed that the bones of live thousand 

 people have been collected and thus placed on exhibition. The cellar of the monastery is 

 also rilled to overflowing (see text page 238). 



call of others. This fact enabled me to 

 visit many places rarely sought out by 

 the tourist and seldom even by the archae- 

 ologist. 



In sailing out of the harbor of Smyrna* 

 the sites of the ancient cities of Clazo- 

 mense and Phocaea may easily be visited. 

 A few old walls of uncertain periods are 

 all that is left to mark the place where 

 these prosperous cities once stood. Many 

 of the stones of the former have been 

 removed to Smyrna and used as building 

 material. Many peculiar sarcophagi were 

 also unearthed here several years ago 



* For a description of Smyrna see Xatioxal 

 Geographic Magazixe. December number. 

 1908, Vol. XIX. 



and sent to the new museum at Con- 

 stantinople. 



Clazomenae was the birthplace of the 

 philosopher Anaxagoras. and it is chiefly 

 due to the fame of this great Ionian that 

 the city has lived in history. While 

 Anaxagoras left the place of his birth 

 when still a young man. in order to link 

 his fortunes with the intellectual age of 

 Pericles at Athens, yet he remained the 

 chief exponent of the Ionian school of 

 philosophy. 



The sister city of Phocaea. situated at 

 the entrance of the harbor, not far from 

 the mouth of the Hermus River, is 

 known chiefly as the mother city of Mar- 

 seilles. Following in the footsteps of 



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