256 FROM THE HELLESPONT 
CHAP, -^yg iiad a fine prospect of the numerous adjacent 
islands, and of the opposite coast of Halicar- 
nassus, now called BMrun\ We followed the 
(l) " If any doubt should exist whether BUdrrln were the antient 
Halicarnassus, or not, it might be removed at once by this circum- 
stance : Strabo points out the situation of the island Arconnesus ; and 
the small island opposite the fort of B6dr6n is now called ArconSso. 
The general appearance of the place, moreover, ag;rees with'' the 
detailed description Vitruvius has given us of the situation of Halicar- 
nassus, in his second book. The entrance to the port of B{ldriin is 
from the south-west : on the right and left, as you enter, sand has 
accumulated, and the free passage is not more than sixty yards wide : 
on the north-west side many Greeks and Turks were at work, employed 
in building a line-of-battle ship : this I went to see. The Turk who 
conducted me over the vessel had been in Egypt at the time when our 
navy was there, and mentioned the names of some of the officers. The 
palace of Halil-bey, the Governor, stands by the sea-side, on the north 
of the port ; and directly opposite stands the Castle of BftdrCm ; and 
round the harbour the town extends, in a circular sweep, for nearly 
half a mile. 
" Bftdrftn is a corruption, through Petrumi, as the Turks write it, 
frotu Pietro. The Fort of San Pietro, Castellum Sancti Petri, (see the 
Geography of Niger, 441) was taken by Philibert de Nailar, Grand- 
Master of Rhodes, and followed the fortunes of this island. It con- 
tinued iu possession of th^ Knights until, as the Turkish annals inform 
us, it was surrendered to the Ottomans, with Cos and Rhodes, in'the 
«29th year of Hegira, and 1522 A.C. * Cum Rhodo Turd arcem Stan- 
coin et Bedrum aliam arcem in /Jnatolid sitam in potestatem redegire? 
Leunclavius, p. 342. 
" Few travellers, I believe, have been able to examine the inside of 
the Castle of BCidrCin. I had entered, and advanced some way, when 
I was obliged to return, by order of a Turk who made his appearance ; 
but not before I had taken the following notes. 
In the first court, coming from the town, I saw some marble bas- 
reliefs, fastened in the wall, in its construction. Their manner and 
style were very good; but one in particular struck me : it represents, 
on the right hand, a man on horseback, with a cloak round his neck, 
like that on the figure on the lamp engraven by Beger, in his Letter 
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