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we afterwards observed, that, even in Efryht, a chap. 
^' VII. 
botanist will find few specimens for his herbary ^ 
and the hours anxiously until sunset. The caravanserai I lived in was 
occupied partly by Jews : it was not to be compared in size with other 
buildings of the kind which I had seen in Asia. In some of these, the 
pillars supporting the galleries are colunuis of antient edifices : as, for 
instance, at Melaso, the antient Mylasa. 
" I went over to Cos from Halicaruassus, the twenty-eighth of 
November, in a Turkish passage-boat, which sails every day, if the 
weather is fine. In the bottom of the boat sat some Turkish women, 
of whose bodies nothing was to be seen, but the extremities of tlieir 
fingers, dyed red. The east side of the island of Cos is mountainous : 
close to the town are orange and lemon plantations : from these the 
fruit is exported in abundance to all jiarts of the Archipelago. The 
island has_ suffered occasionally from earthquakes ; particularly from 
one at the end of the fifteenth century, as Bosio informs us ; and one 
in the time of Antoninus entirely destroyed the town, as we learn from 
Pausanias, (lib. viii.) which however was restored, at great expense, 
by the Emperor, who sent a colony there. This circumstance of the 
destruction of the town may lead us to suspect the antiquity of the 
monuments of art now to be seen there; and, indeed, many of the 
inscriptions are of a late age ; they are all in Doric : this was the 
dialect of Cos and Halicarnassus ; but although it was the native 
language of Herodotus and Hippocrates, they preferred the open 
vowels of Ionia. In an inscription near the castle and a mosque, I 
observed T02©E022EBA2T02 ; this form may be also seen in the 
monuments, in Doric, published by Gruter (:>Qo) and ChishuU. The 
use of the O for the OT lasted, in ihe. other dialects of Greece, from the 
time of Cadmus to the Macedonian ffira. {Taylor ad Mar. Sa7i.) 
There are many bas-reliefs to be seen in the streets and in the houses 
of the town. Porcacchi, in his Description of the Archipelago, says of 
Cos, 'Ha molti iwbili edi/izi di marmo anticJii ;' but of these no 
vestige is extant; Votive-offerings in honour of i^sculapius, whose 
temple, according to Strabu, stood in the suburb, may be observed. 
Near a mosque is a cylindrical piece of marble, with four sculptured 
figures, dancing, winged, and holding a wreath of flowers. A plane- 
tree, twenty-seven feet in circumference, whose branches are supported 
by seven columns, stands near the walls of the castle. Hasselquist, 
the 
