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mole, not' included in the view then presented chap. 
to us. According to the valuable observations 
of Mr. Morritt, given below, in an extract from 
uiner gates to be opened into the court. The castle is a work of modem 
date, but built, in a great degree, of antient materials, confusedly put 
together in the walls. There is a plate which gives a correct notion of 
its general appearance, in the Voyage Pittoresque. We found over the 
door an ill-carved lion, and a mutilated bust of antient work. Old 
coats-of-arms, the remains probably of the Crusaders, and the Knights of 
St. John of Rhodes, are mixed in the walls %vith many precious fragments 
of the finest periods of Grecian art. There are several pieces of an antient 
frieze, representing the Combats of Thr - nd the Amazons, of which 
the design and execution are equal to th Lord Elgin brought over 
fr -n the Parthenon. These are stuck in the wall, some of them reversed, 
• jme edgewise, and some which have probably been better preserved by 
having the curved side towards the wall, and inserted in it. Xo entreaties 
nor bribes could procure these, at the time we were abroad ; but now, if thej 
eould be procured, they would form, I think, a most valuable supplement 
to the monuments already brought hither from Athens. From my 
recollection of them, I should say they were of a higher finish, rather 
better preserved, and the design of a date somewhat subsequent to those 
of Phidias, the proportions less massive, and the forms of a softer, more 
flowing, and less severe character. It is probable that these beautiful 
marbles were taken from the celebrated Mausoleum : of this, however, 
no other remains are discoverable in those parts of the town we were 
permitted to examine. I found an Inscription this day, near a fountain 
in the town, containing hexameter and pentameter lines, on the conse- 
cration, or dedication, of some person to Apollo. 
" 16th June. — We examined the general situation of the town : this 
is already described, and we searched in vain for traces of the INIauso. 
leum. The view of Cos and of the gulph are beautiful ; and there is a 
picturesque little port behind the Castle, to the east, shut in by the rock 
of the Arconnesus. This was the little port seen from the palace of die 
Carian Kings, which stood in the old Acropolis, where the Castle now 
is; although Arrian places this Acropolis (<» t^ vsjVa*) on the island itself. 
" 25th June. — We again set off early; and doubling the western point 
of our little harbour as the day broke, we saw, in another small creek, 
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