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mosques, mortars, and grave-stones, the pave- ^y^y^' 
ment of baths, and other modern works, denote * — /-— ' 
the ruin that has taken place, and the immense 
quantity of antient materials here employed. 
The mosque of the town of Stanchio is built 
entirely of marble. 
The voyage from Cos to Rhodes, like that Voyage 
which has been already described, resembles Rhodes. 
more a pleasing excursion in a large river, than 
in the open sea. The Mediterranean is here so 
thickly studded with islands, that the view is 
everywhere bounded by land^ We steered 
close round the Triopian Promontory, now 
called Cape Crio ; and, having doubled it, be- 
held, towards the west and south-west, the 
islands of Nisyros and Telos, whose modern 
names are Nizary and Piscopy. According to 
Strabo, Nisyros antiently possessed a temple of 
Neptune^. We afterwards obtained a most 
interesting view, from the deck, of the Ruins of Jf"'"* "^ 
Cnidus, a city famous in having produced the 
most-renowned sculptors and architects of 
Antient Greece. The Turks and Greeks have 
long resorted thither, as to a quarry, for the 
(2) Called Sporades, from the irregularity in which they are here 
scattered. Some of them are uot laid down in any chart. 
(3) Slrab.G&ogr. lib. x. p. 714. Ed. O.ion. 
