THE NEW YORK 470942 ASTOR, LENOX AND 1909 EDINBURGH: FULLARTON AND MACNAB, PRINTERS, LEITH WALK. PHOENICIA, CILICIA, PISIDIA, LYCIA, CARIA, LYDIA, THE ISLANDS 197 210 224 256 354 382 THE LANDS OF THE MESSIAH, MAHOMET, AND THE POPE. CHAPTER I. ROUND THE PENINSULA AND UP THE MEDITERRANEAN. HAD Julius Cæsar been permitted in 1851 to revisit this world, that we might show him how much Britain had advanced since he first invaded our shores, it would have been desirable that he had popped up his head through the pavement at the Wellington Statue, before the Royal Exchange and the Bank of England. Had he been guided by our own warrior, his equal in arms and in everything else, to some of the London lions;-had he been shown the Crystal Palace, and been conducted along the more crowded thoroughfares to the terminus of the South-Eastern Counties Railway, and seen the Electric Telegraph sending despatches to Paris in a minute; had he jumped into an express train, and gone to Southampton very smoothly at the rate of sixty miles an hour;-had he been taken on board of a man-of-war carrying a hundred and twenty guns all sixty-eight pounders;—had he been told that it required nine miles of canvass to make one set of sails, and an oak forest of five hundred acres in ex tent to furnish her timbers;—had he next visited one of the Ocean Steamers belonging to the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company; verily, the old Roman hero would in this way have seen more wonders in one day than he ever beheld in his life. These steamers-the "Himalaya," for instance, now building-measure upwards A |