250 FROM THE HELLESPONT 
CHAP, the appearance of the bark; for this has actually 
■ encased the extremities of the columns, and so 
completely, that the branches and the pillars 
mutually support each other: it is probable, if 
those branches were raised, some of them 
v/ould lift the pillars from the earth. 
Beneath this tree, we observed a cylindrical 
marble altar, adorned with rams' heads support- 
ing festoons in relief, exactly like the altar from 
Delos, engraved in Tournefort's Travels, and 
lately presented by Mr. Harvey, of Jesus Col- 
lege, Cambridge, to the Vestibule of the 
University Library. Such altars are common in 
the Levant; they are usually scooped, as this of 
Cos has been, for mortars, to bruise corn '. Where 
they cannot find altars for this purpose, they 
employ the capitals of columns. Thus have 
been preserved a few Grecian antiquities, which 
otherwise would long ago have been converted 
into lime. The inscription upon this altar was 
very legible. Its antiquity may be noticed, al- 
though its particular age cannot be ascertained, 
bv the manner in which the fl is written. It 
(l) Their dimensions are generally 
measured. 
the same. 
This of Cos we 
Fcft 
Inrhes 
Height . . . :i 
. 6 
Diameter . . '.' 
. 8 
