248 FROM THE HELLESPONT 
CHAP, from the island, towards the north. One of the 
Vil. 
kihabitants, after we had landed, brought to us 
a bronze medal of the island, with the head of 
Hippocrates, and the word KHIIIN. It is the 
more interesting, as few medals are now found 
at Cos. We could neither procure nor hear of 
a single one in silver. In other respects, the 
island abounds in antiquities; but they are 
scattered in such a confused manner, that 
nothing decisive can be collected from their ap- 
pearance. In the wall of the quay, facing the 
port, we observed the colossal marble statue of 
the f5ituation of which, in the recess of a hay, looking over olive- 
grounds to the sea, and thence to the high mountains near Halicar- 
nassus, is beautiful. To this last place, now called Bodntn, the road 
led me through groves of myrtle, and ilex, by the sea-shore, for two 
hours and a half. I shall here subjoin the distance of some of the 
places on the coast. 
Hours 
From Priene to the Meander 3 
To Acqui 1 
To Ura (Temple of Apollo) "I 
To Casikli Sg 
To Assuni 6 
" The direct route from this last place to Halicarnassus I cannot give 
as I wish ; as we lost our way, going for three quarters of an hour 
through a bay of the sea, up to the horses' girts ; and riding all the 
day in rain, until half past nine, when the barking of dogs guided us 
to a Turkish hut, where I slept : the next morning, at eight, I set 
out again, passing some fluted columns ; and in a valley, some bee- 
hives, made of earthen-ware, cylindrical, about two feet and a half 
in height. Riding among mountains, I reached a colfee-hut at 
Guverchin, by the shore, in a bay, running east and west; and in four 
hours and a half arrived at Halicarnassus." If'alpolc's 31S. Jotirnaf. 
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