[10 ISLAND OF NAXOS. 
CHAP, fragments near the portal : it is so much softer 
..-^- _i and more laminary than the Parian, that the 
difference between the two kinds is easily to be 
recognised by fracture. It is singular that no 
account of a building of such magnificence 
should be preserved in any author. Ptolemy, 
as it is observed by Tournefort, seems to men- 
tion an antient city upon which it is probable 
that the modern town of Naxos is built 1 : but 
no allusion to this small isle and its temple 
occurs in any antient description of Greece, 
notwithstanding all that has been said of Naxbs, 
by Herodotus, by Ap^lan, and by other writers. 
From this isle we returned to conclude our 
researches in Naxos. 
other The citadel was constructed under Marco 
Sanudo, the first duke of the Archipelago ; and 
the antient palace of his successors was the 
large square tower which is now remaining 
within this circular fortress*. Near to a small 
chapel beneath its walls, we found a cippus, 
representing two female figures, in bas-relief. 
There is not a house in the town that has not 
(1) Na|u Nwsu n vfaif. Plol. Geog. lib. iii. cap. 15. 
12) Tournef. Voy. duLev. torn. I. Lett.V. Lyon ) 17-17. 
