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cMvr. ruins stood seemed to rise from the sea in form 
of a theatre. Straho notices this form, as cha- 
racterizing the land on the western side of tlie 
sepulture, from their appearance ; but their contents have been long ago 
carried away. The modern castle stands on a tongue of land at tlie 
eastern extremity of the port, which it commanded ; and, from the antient 
materials used in its construction, appears to have been formerly a fortress 
commanding the port ; and here, as I suppose, was one of the Citadels 
mentioned by Strabo, who says expressly, that when Alexander took the 
town, there were /2t'o, Qittvi'S rivly.il'jn, lib. xiv. p. C57.) At the western 
extremity of the bay, the situation of the Aga's house and harem pre- 
vented our researches. Here was the fountain Salmacis, the temples of 
Venus and Mercuiy, and the an^a, y.xXovfiUn 'Sa.Xju.dxi; mentioned by 
An-ian (Ub. i. p. 25. de Exped. Alexand.) the second Acropolis of 
Strabo, in which the Persians took refuge, as well as in that on the 
island, when the town had been carried by the attack of Alexander on the 
land side. Arriau also notices the third Acropolis, the Arx iledia of 
Vitruvius, on the eminence behind the tlieatre, axaav t«v t^oi 'iAvXamsat 
ftuXmra, rir^afi/iivriv, tlic fortress that looked towards Mylassa, near the 
wall where the Blacedonians made one of their assaults upon tlie city. 
Diodorus Siculus mentions this fortress as the ax^otroXis, Acropolis, 
(Ub. xvii. p. 178. vol.11. Wesseling.) From liis \\Titings, or at least 
from the same source. Anian seems to have collected most of the details 
of Alexander's famous siege. The citadel and fountain of Salmacis on 
the western horn, and that on the island of Arconnesus, continued to 
resist the Macedonians after the Arx Media and the city were destroyed. 
They probably therefore were the double Acropolis mentioned by Strabo ; 
but the third is ceitainly mentioned both by Diodorus, Arrian, and 
Vitruvius ; and as certainly its remains are seen behind the theatre, 
tliough Choisetd considers the Acropolis here as only meaning an 
elevated part of the city, a mode of expression not at all usual to Greek 
writers. 
" 15th June. — We tried to procure permission from the Disdar, the 
Turkish Governor of the Castle, to see the interior of tliat fortress ; but 
after a long negotiation, we were at last only permitted to walk with a 
Janissary round the outward ramparts, his jealousy not permitting the 
I inner 
