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them s but the Reafbn I believe was, becaufe it was even 
Harved, having been kept a great while, and then al- 
moft dead. Its Lungs reach near the Length of its 
Body, confifting of a thin skinny Subftance, full of 
fmall Veins, and divided into two Isabels placed on each 
Side, and filled with Air, which being let out, thofe 
Labels fhrunk together. Its Tail is of very great life 
to it in climbing. It will twine it about a Bone or a 
Stick lb fall, that if it lets go, or falls fiiort in reach- 
ing at any Thing elfe with its Claws, it will hang fad by 
the Tail, and fuftain and recover its whole Body by it. 
The little one that I caught, I put into a Glafs fo deep, 
that it could not reach the Brim with its Fore-feet by 
much, nor could take any Hold with its Claws j and 
yet it got itfelf out, and almofl efcaped from me, as I 
faw afterwards, by Handing upon its Fore-feet, and 
hoifting itfelf up backwards, until it catched hold of 
the Brim of the Glafs with its Tail ; by the Help where- 
of it lifted all its whole Body out. And this is what I 
obferved of this wonderful Animal, which thus chal- 
lengeth Praife for its Creator the Lord of all Wonder. 
4. Efhefus lies not above fourteen or fifteen Leagues 
From Smyrna. In the Way is a Village called Sedequi^ 
about three Leagues from Smyrna., fituated in a very 
pleafant Country *, for which Reafon the European Con- 
fuls of Smyrna have their Country-houfes there, and 
frequently retire thither to divert themfelves with Hunt- 
ing. The reft of the Way from Sedequi to Ephefus is 
over a very pleafant and large Plain. Ephefus^ once fo 
noted a City, is now nothing but a confufed Heap of 
Rubbifti, Pieces of Marble, demolilh’d Walls, broken 
Columns and Chapters. That Parr, which is at prefent 
inhabited, is bounded on the Eaft with a large Plain, 
which reaches as far as xht Archipelago, and on the Sides 
with high Hills. The moft remarkable Things in it 
are. The old Church of St. John the Evangelift. It 
had anciently four Gates, but two of them are wall’d 
up. You enter into the Church by a Defcent of fixteen 
Stairs, at the Bottom of which is a Fountain. Within 
it are four Pillars of Porphyry fpotted with Black and 
Red, twelve Foot and an half in Circumference, and 
thirty-fix Foot high, being one entire Piece of Stone, 
which bears up the Roof. There are alfo two other 
pillars of Samaan Scone, and round about the Church, 
on the Outfide, is a Gallery having four Pillars a-breaft, 
and fix in Length, fet off in the Middle with an Odlo- 
gon Fountain, each of whofe Sides are ten Foot long, 
and one Foot thick. The Church hath two Domes, 
and is cover’d with Lead. The Turks having convert- 
ed it into a Mofque, have added a Mineret, and adorn’d 
it after their Fafhion ; but the greateft Rarities of it, 
when it was a Church, were carried to Conjlantinople to 
Sultan Soliman, to adorn the Mofque he had ereded there. 
The Caftle Hands on an Hill juft by it, and has a 
very ancient Tower ftill Handing, on the Top of which 
is a very curious Piece of Sculpture, or Bajfo-relievo, 
which, as fome fay, reprefents the Hiftory of the fa- 
mous Roman, Marcus Curius ; but others fay, the De- 
ftrudion of Troy. The Truth is, none dare come near 
enough to take an exad View of it, and fo they only 
guefs at it. In paffing it, you may difcern three Pieces 
of Marble, one reprefents Bauhmal, the fecond a Man 
fallen dead from his Horfe, and a Peribn in a Senator’s 
Habit ftanding by, feems to lament the Accident, and 
the third is the Figure of a dead Body laid out ready 
for Interment. 
A large Inclofure, where anciently ftood the Temple 
of Diana ; but there is nothing remarkable of it, but 
one large Gate much ruined and defaced. Within it, 
on the North Side, is engraven on a Stone a Man on 
Horfeback, with a Dog by him, and a Serpent twifted 
round a Tree. On the South- fide are two Infcriptions, 
the one within, in thefe Words, ACC E NSO. RENSI 
^T ASlMs and the other, M.R. VEDI NICERH. 
MEDIAE. PAVILLIMX. M. HIM VXORIS EL 
But the Learned cannot tell what they mean. On the 
Front of the Gate are thefe Words graven, UNIOR 
CANTU SHIM but they are fo mingled, that their 
Meaning is not to be guefs’d at. 
Two Amphitheatres, where Frizes ufed to be and- 
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ently fought; but nothing now remains of them, but 
Part of the Walls of one of them, built after the an- 
tique Manner of large Free-Stones. Hard by thefe 
Amphitneatres is a large Square, Vi^h^re are a oreat 
many Pieces of broken Columns, Chapters, Frizes°and 
Pedeftals, of a wonderful Bignefs. Uport Ibme of them 
are Arches of a prodigious Bignefs, and in the Body 
ot one of the Columns are a Pair of Stairs, which lead 
a great Way under Ground. Among the Ruins are 
fome Remains of the ancient Baths. 
The Grotto, called. The Cave of the feven Sleepers, 
who flying into that Place to avoid the Perfecution in 
the Reign of Decius the Emperor, two liundred and 
fifty Years after Chrift, fell into fo found a Sleep, that 
they did not awake again till the Reign ol 'iheodoJiusU. 
who was a zealous Protedor of the Chriftians, and lup- 
pofed they had ftept but one Night, though it was near 
two hundred Years. "" 
A Tomb, or Monument, on which are feveral Greek 
Charaaers, and four little Children in Bajfo-relievo, 
with feveral Marble Statues buried under Ground, yet 
fo carelefly, that the Feet of Ibme of them appear’d 
above. 
5. About a fmall Hour’s Journey from Ephefus are 
to be feen the Fonts, where, they fay, St. John the 
Evangelift baptized the Chriftians. It is a grey Jafper- 
Stone, fixteen Foot in Diameter, but a little mangled by 
Travellers, who ufually carry away a Piece of it. The 
Greeks have many like them. ■ About half a Lea^^ue 
further, upon the Top of an Hill, is a Fabrick, laid 
to be the Place where St. Paul was imprifon’d. There 
are four Rooms curioufly wrought in Marble, ftill ftand- 
ing. From this Caftle is a pleafant Profpea over the 
Plains and Meadows, where the River Meander makes 
fo many Windings and Turnings, as ravifhes the Spec- 
tator with Wonder and Delight at once. The Wa- 
ter of it is very pleafant, and the Current of it fo ftill, 
that one can hardly difcern which Way the Stream 
runs, unlefs it be at the Mouths where it empties itfelf 
into the Sea. Not far from Ephefus lies an Ifland cal- 
led Scala Nova, but by the Turks, Cous-Adafi, or the 
Ifland of Birds. Here are the richeft Mufeadine Wines 
made, of all the Iflands of the Archipelago. 
6 . From Smyrna Mr. Thevenot went fora Diverfion to 
fee the Wonders of Chio, fo much talked of throughout 
^.WAfia. This Ifland, which may be called the Paradice 
of Greece, is governed by Chriftians, though under the 
Authority of the Turks, who command in fmall Mat- 
ters. They chufe themfelves C 0 S S, one h?i\k Greeks, 
and the other half Latins, who, during the Time of 
their Continuance, take Care of all Affairs. The People 
obtained thefe Privileges by fubmitting voluntarily to 
Mahometll. \N\ito he conquer’d and the Turks 
fuffer them to enjoy them without Controul. Up and 
down the Country are feveral Churches, belonging ei- 
ther to the Popifh Bifliops or Monks, but the Greeks 
have many more in feveral Places, the Latin Churches 
being reckon’d but three hundred and one, but the 
Greeks five hundred : They are all very well ferved, and 
Divine Service is performed with as many Ceremonies, 
as if it were in the Heart of Chriftendom, for the Turks 
moleft them not, but they have a free Exercife of their 
Religion,infomuch that on Corpus Chrifti-Day the Floly 
Sacrament is carried about the Streets under a Canopy, 
without any Fear of Indignity that may be oflered by 
the Turks, though nothing is more odious to them than 
that Ceremony. 
When any Man is found killed in this Ifland, whe- 
ther ChriHian or Turk, the Author of the Murther is di- 
ligently fought for, but if he be not found, the Town 
muft pay the Price of his Blood thus flain, at the Rate 
of 12,000 Afpers, which is aflTefled upon every Houfe 
by the GOSS but if the Murtherer be found, his 
Blood fatisfies for all, and no Money is paid. The 
Cadi andTurkiJh Officers make Advantage of thefe Fines. 
In the Ifland are twenty two Villages that have Maftick 
Trees, which are in all an hundred thoufand. They 
are Lentisks, crooked like Vines, and creeping on the 
Ground. 
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