We  cannot  determine  the  position  of  any  bridges  which  the  Apostle  may
have  crossed  ;  but  his  course  was  never  far  from  the  channels  of  these  two
rivers :  and  it  is  an  interesting  fact,  that  his  name  is  still  traditionally
connected  with  one  of  them,  as  we  learn  from  tlie  information  recently
given  to  an  English  traveller  by  the  Archbishop  of  Pisidia.^

Such  considerations  respecting  the  physical  peculiarities  of  the  country
now  traversed  by  St.  Paul,  naturally  lead  us  into  various  trains  of  thought
concerning  the  scenery,  the  climate,  and  the  seasons.*  And  there  aro
certain  probabilities  in  relation  to  the  time  of  the  year  when  the  Apostle
may  be  supposed  to  have  journeyed  this  way,  which  may  well  excuse  some
remarks  on  these  subjects.  And  this  is  all  the  more  allowable,  because
we  are  absolutely  without  any  data  for  determining  the  year  in  which
this  first  missionary  expedition  was  undertaken.  All  that  we  can  assert
with  confidence  is  that  it  must  have  taken  place  somewhere  in  the  interval
between  the  years  45  and  50.^     But  this  makes  us  all  the  more  desirous

1  Thus  the  true  meaning  of  2  Cor.  xi.  26  had  continued  its  course  so  far,  is  lost  in  the

is  lost  in  the  English  translation.     Similarly,  mountains,  &c."  —  Arundell's  .4s/a  il//«or,  toI.
in  the  Sermon  on  the  Mount  (Matt.  vii.  25,  ii.  p.  31.     The  river  is  probably  the  Eurym©-

27),    the    word    for    "rivers"    is    translated  don.
