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SECOND EXCURSION TO THE 
CHAP. 
VII. 
Point and 
Bay of 
Phanari . 
stagnant waters of the neighbourhood. By the 
light of our fire, a bed was prepared for 
Professor Pallas , upon a sort of shelf : this, as it 
supported only half his mattress, caused him 
to glide off as often as he fell asleep, and at 
last reconciled him to a quiet though more 
revolting couch, upon the damp and dirty 
floor. For ourselves, having procured two 
long wooden benches, about eight inches 
wide, we contrived to balance our bodies, in 
a horizontal posture, between sleeping and 
waking, until the morning. When day-light 
appeared, the Professor left us, to examine 
the Point of Phanari, or the Light Tower ; and, 
returning before we were yet aroused from our 
dozing, assured us that the whole of that neck 
of land was covered with antient ruins. We 
rose with great eagerness, to follow him ; and, 
as we approached the water’s edge, were im- 
mediately struck by the appearance of a very 
small peninsula, stretching into the Bay of 
Phanari, entirely covered by the remains of an 
antient fortress. The ground-plan of this struc- 
ture has been published by the Professor, in his 
own Work. It seemed to have been once an 
island, connected with the main land by an 
artificial mole, now constituting a small isthmus. 
From this peninsula the shore rises, and all the 
land towards its western extremity is elevated. 
