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CHAP, a vain wish of enjoyina- a nearer view was 
VII. J J 9 
V y .> excited. The consciousness to a traveller of the 
many places he cannot visit, often counter- 
balances the satisfaction derived from the view 
of objects he has been permitted to see \ Few 
(l) Some amends for the author's deficiency, with respect to Mity- 
Icne, will be made by communication of a different nature ; namely, 
by those extracts from the MS. Journal of his friend Mr. fTltlpole 
which relate to his Travels in Asia Minor. They begin with his Journey 
from Pergamus to Smyrna, 
" The antiquities of Pergamus are very deserving of a minute 
examination ; particularly those on the Acropolis ; on one part of 
which, towards the south, is a wall of granite, a most stupendous work, 
eighty or ninety feet in perpendicular depth. Vast cisterns and 
decayed towers, (in one of which I copied a Greek Inscription relating 
to a decree ratified by the people of Pergamus, and inscribed in the 
Temple of Bacchus,) are to be seen there. The Acropolis was adorned 
with a temple of the Corinthian order, whose pillars, of nearly four 
feet in diameter, are lying prostrate among other parts of it. This 
temple, I conceive, was erected to Minerva : we know, from Vitru- 
vius, that her temple was built ' in excelsissimo loco' (lib. i. c.7.); and 
the silver money of Pergamus bears her image constantly : games also 
were, as Polybius informs us, celebrated here, in honour of her, by 
Attalus, (lib. iv.) Below, to the south, is the town ; and to the west 
of it was the Stadium, and a theatre above it. The relative situation 
of these two buildings at Tralles in Asia was the same, according to 
Vitruvius, (lib. v.) * Trallibus porticus ex utrdque parte scend^, supra sta- 
dium.' Farther on to the west, are the remains of an amphitheatre or 
Naumachia : there is water dividing the two semicircles ; so that if 
the building was used for the first, it must have flowed beneath, in a 
channel, whenever the sports were represented. 
*' There is no part of the Turkish dominions where you may travel 
with greater safety, than in the district under the family of Kara 
Osman Oglou. The two capitals, as they may be called, are Pergamus, 
and Magnesia. In coming from the former place to Smyrna, I passed 
through part of their territory. The country was, for Turkey, well 
cultivated j most of it laid down in cotton and coi-n land. They plough, 
as 
