260 FROM THE HELLESPONT 
CHAP, before the latter end of April, or beginning of 
>- V -' May. At length we reached the entrance of 
the naturalist, says, ' I imagine, in seeing it, to have beheld the 
largest, oldest, and most remarkable inhabitant of the vegetable 
kingdom : it has forty-seven branches, each a fathom thick.' 
" I rode to a village two hours and a half distant from the town, 
called Affendiou, perhaps the Standio of Porcacchi : on the road I 
copied many Greek inscriptions. In returning to the town by a 
different direction, we came to a source of cold mineral water: at 
half an hour's distance from this, above in the rock, is a source of hot 
water, where there are remains of basins, wherein those who used the 
water were accustomed to bathe. J n half an hour more we came to 
the place called the Fountain of Hippocrates : a light was procured, 
and we walked into a passage fifty yards in length, six feet high, and 
four wide : at the bottom ran a stream of water, in a channel live 
inches broad : we reached, at last, a circular chamber, ten feet in 
diameter ; this is built quite near the source. The water running 
from beneath the circular chamber, through the channel, is conveyed, 
as soon as it reaches the open air, by another channel, covered with 
tile and stone, over a space of grqund t<iual to four miles, and sup- 
plies the town of Cos. 
" The road fron» Affendiou to the town is very striking. The 
fertility of the island is celebrated now in the Levant, as in the days of 
Strabo, who calls it iuKa^vos -. and the language of Thevet would have 
appeared perfectly correct, if I had been there at a different season of 
the year : £!t pense que souhz le del n'y a lieu plaisant que. celuy la, 
veu les ieaux jar dins si oderi/erans, que vous diriez que c'est un Paradis 
ierrestre, et la cu les oisenux de toutes sortes recreent de Icur ramage.' 
See bis Cosmography, 229. 
" Whilst I was at Cos, I took a boat, and went to see what I suppose 
to be the Ruins of Myndus ; where, among other interesting remains, 
is a long jettee of stones, parallel to each other, and principally of 
thirteen feet in length, connecting an island to the main land. 1 went 
also to the Ruins of Cnidijs, at Cap Crio. It was the first of Pecember ; 
and we had hardly time to enter one of the small harbours of Cnidus, 
when a gale from the south-west, the wind usual at this time of the 
year, began to blow. ' The Libs, or Soutk-West,' says Theophrastus, 
[de Ventis, 413,) * is very violently felt at Cnidus and Rhodes;' and 
one of the harbours of Cnidus is open to this quarter. There is no 
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