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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22204, 6 March 1934, Page 16

Taoms, the “no mean city” of St. Paul, was in ancient time a flourishing seaport, but to-day it is 26 miles from the sea, and the River Cyndus has changed its course many times. But, as in the days of the great apostle, tentmaking is an important occupation for large numbers of the people take their flocks up to the highlands during the summer months. “ You see,” wrote ■ recent visitor, “gardens* on all sides where the orange blossom grows and where the red of the pomegranate makes a riot of colour. Red oleander grows in profusion, and the flaming hibiscus adds to the already colourful picture.” But Tarsus, that once knew Xenephon, and Alexander the Great, and the Crusaders, is to-day only a . sleepy little Turkish town and few of-fts inhabitants realise that the soil they tread every day is the most historic in the world.