TO CONSTANTINOPLE. 
433 
mountains, and each individual mass composing chap. 
them, lean from the north towards the south, v. y 
At the point of the European light-house, we 
found the sea still tempestuous, beating against 
immense rocks of a hard and compact lava: 
these rocks have separated prismatically, and 
they exhibit surfaces tinged by the oxide of 
iron. 
From this point we passed to the Cyanean Votw e 
Isle , upon the European side of the Strait; Altar ' 
and there landed. It is remarkable for an 
altar of white marble, long known under the 
name of Pompeys Pillar. Whence it received 
this appellation, it is perhaps impossible to 
ascertain. If the representation given in 
Sandys Travels be correct 1 , there once stood 
a column upon this altar. He describes it as 
“ a piller of white marble, called vulgarly, The 
Filler of Pompey : the basis whereof did beare 
these now worne-out characters 2 : 
DIVO • CAESARI • AVGVSTO • 
L ■ CLANNIDIVS 
L • F • CLA PONTO ” 
0) Sandys’ Travels, p. 40. ed, 3. Lond. 1632. 
(2) TVheler gives a different reading of this inscription ; and has 
e ndeavoured to reconcile his legend with names recorded by Grille) . 
See fVheler's Journey , Sfe. Lond. 1 683. p. 207- Lcunclavius, and 
George 
