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Olear.] [Footnote 80: Tacit.Annal.iv.55.I have taken some pains in consulting and comparing modern travellers, with regard to the fate of those eleven cities of Asia.

Seven or eight are totally destroyed: Hypaepe, Tralles, Laodicea, Hium, Halicarnassus, Miletus, Ephesus, and we may add Sardes.

Of the remaining three, Pergamus is a straggling village of two or three thousand inhabitants; Magnesia, under the name of Guzelhissar, a town of some consequence; and Smyrna, a great city, peopled by a hundred thousand souls.

But even at Smyrna, while the Franks have maintained a commerce, the Turks have ruined the arts.] [Footnote 81: See a very exact and pleasing description of the ruins of Laodicea, in Chandler's Travels through Asia Minor, p.