!['The Expedition for the survey of the rivers Euphrates and Tigris, carried on by order of the British government, in the years 1835, 1836, and 1837; preceded by geographical and historical notices of the regions situated between the rivers Nile and Indus. In four volumes. With fourteen maps and charts, and embellished with ninety-seven plates, besides numerous wood-cuts. Volume the first.' [‎313] (382/905)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100023550132.0x000001/IOL_1947_C_142_0383.jp2/full/!1200,1200/0/default.jpg "'The Expedition for the survey of the rivers Euphrates and Tigris, carried on by order of the British government, in the years 1835, 1836, and 1837; preceded by geographical and historical notices of the regions situated between the rivers Nile and Indus. In four volumes. With fourteen maps and charts, and embellished with ninety-seven plates, besides numerous wood-cuts. Volume the first.' [‎313] (382/905)")
'The Expedition for the survey of the rivers Euphrates and Tigris, carried on by order of the British government, in the years 1835, 1836, and 1837; preceded by geographical and historical notices of the regions situated between the rivers Nile and Indus. In four volumes. With fourteen maps and charts, and embellished with ninety-seven plates, besides numerous wood-cuts. Volume the first.' [313] (382/905)
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CHAP. XIV.]
THE ANCIENT SITE.
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70,000 Turks, 30,000 Greeks, 12,000 Spanish Jews, 7000 It8 popiiiation,
Armenians, the rest being composed of the mixed races of all
nations, called Levantines; so that the interior of the city
presents a vast variety of persons and occupations. Sets of
athletic porters removing weighty boxes, or ponderous bales
of goods suspended between two poles, and wine and other
shops stocked with European goods, mark the limits of the
Frank quarter; the rest of the town shows the varied cos
tumes of the Turks, Greeks, Armenians, Mugrebbins, and the
still more important looking Chavasses of the Consuls and
other authorities. Near the suburbs are seen the Xebeques
and other sun-burnt inhabitants of the interior provinces :
these people invariably avoid the town, remaining outside with
their camels till the delivery of their goods enables them once
more to enjoy the open country.
The remains of a theatre, portions of cisterns, and a stadium, and antiquity,
in addition to the medals found at different times, show that
the present town occupies the site of the queen of Asiatic
cities. Besides being the seat of the arts and sciences, it was
one of the thirteen which contended for the honour of having
given birth to Homer; 1 and, on its reparation, 2 Alexander the
Great bestowed such care and pains that Strabo pronounced
it to be the finest of all the Ionian cities. 3 According to
the same authority, the name was derived from Smyrna, an
Amazon who conquered Ephesus, from whence her followers
advancing, drove away the Leleges, or iEolians, 4 and built
ancient Smyrna, 5 20 stadia from the present city; but being
driven out, they retired to
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
, and afterwards they
took possession of the actual site. 6
Ancient Smyrna was at the bottom of the Hermeean Gulf,
1 It contained a statue and temple dedicated to Homer, and coins Were
struck to commemorate this locality as his birth-place.-^Strabo, lib, XlV.,
p. 646. There are several brass coins in the king's cabinet at Paris; and
one in silver represents Homer sitting, "with a roll or volume in his hand.
2 Pliny, lib. V., c. xxix, 3 Lib. XIV., p. 646.
* Herodotus, lib. I., c. xlix.
5 622 years before the expedition of Xerxes.—Herodot. in vit& Homeri,
sub finem. 6 Strabo, lib. XIV., pp. 633, 634.
VOL. I. ^ S
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The Expedition for the survey of the rivers Euphrates and Tigris, carried on by order of the British government, in the years 1835, 1836, and 1837; preceded by geographical and historical notices of the regions situated between the rivers Nile and Indus. In four volumes. With fourteen maps and charts, and embellished with ninety-seven plates, besides numerous wood-cuts. Volume the first.
Publication Details: London : Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1850 Printed by W. Clowes and sons, Stamford Street.
Notes: Printer's name from colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. . Only two volumes of text and an atlas containing the maps were published.
Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Physical Description: xxvii, [3], 799, [1] p., [29] leaves of plates (1 folded), (the plates are numbered: 1, 3-9, 11-26, 28, 33, 37, 39, 42-43). Vol. 1, p. 705-706 and p. 707-708 are fold-out leaves.
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- 'The Expedition for the survey of the rivers Euphrates and Tigris, carried on by order of the British government, in the years 1835, 1836, and 1837; preceded by geographical and historical notices of the regions situated between the rivers Nile and Indus. In four volumes. With fourteen maps and charts, and embellished with ninety-seven plates, besides numerous wood-cuts. Volume the first.'
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- front, back, spine, head, edge, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1:30, 1:8, 8a, 8a, 9:34, 34a:34b, 35:48, 48a:48b, 49:92, 92a:92b, 93:114, 114a:114b, 115:116, 116a:116b, 117:138, 138a:138b, 139:189, 188:198, 198a:198b, 199:208, 208a:208b, 209:212, 212a:212b, 213:230, 230a:230b, 231:266, 266a:266b, 267:310, 310a:310b, 311:324, 324a:324b, 325:336, 336a:336b, 337:350, 350a:350b, 351:368, 368a:368b, 369:392, 392a:392b, 393:406, 406a:406b, 407:426, 426a:426b, 427:432, 432a:432b, 433:470, 470a:470b, 471:490, 490a:490b, 491:526, 526a:526b, 527:596, 596a:596b, 597:616, 616a:616b, 617:622, 622a:622b, 623:636, 636a:636b, 637:704, 704a, 705, 705, 707:802, iii-r:iii-v, back-i
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- Chesney, Francis Rawdon
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