This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 Excerpt: ...it; many of these shafts are thirty and forty feet in length, and yet there are no marble quarries within many miles. The whole neighbourhood is basalt and trap. But for centuries these ruins have served as Turkish quarries, nor for quarries only--the marbles are continually being broken up and burnt for lime. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 Excerpt: ...it; many of these shafts are thirty and forty feet in length, and yet there are no marble quarries within many miles. The whole neighbourhood is basalt and trap. But for centuries these ruins have served as Turkish quarries, nor for quarries only--the marbles are continually being broken up and burnt for lime. Fragments of statues strew the ground. Large sculptures are frequently disinterred, but at once broken up by the Turks, who, unfortunately for the hopes of European collectors, believe that treasure is concealed in the head of these idols, which are therefore at once demolished; and this notion, combined with the Moslem horror of all representations of the human form as idolatrous, has probably destroyed more Grecian statues at Pergamum than now grace the museums of Europe. Such is Bergama, with its wilderness of ruins, --ruins where once was Satan's seat, in all the pomp and splendour of the gorgeous and sensuous ritual of voluptuous Greece, --but now towering like gaunt "vast fortresses amidst barracks of wood," and where the very cemeteries are full of sculptured relics. There is still a considerable population, variously estimated at from twenty to thirty thousand--but only a few of these are Christians--not more than four thousand; and under the dominant Turkish race they have never enjoyed the comparative freedom of worship permitted to their brethren in Smyrna and Philadelphia. One mean and inconspicuous building is the only church, and even there the worship is often hushed, lest it should exasperate an outburst of fanaticism. Satan still retains his sceptre, though without the glory of his ancient throne. THYATIRA. 'I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the...
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