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crowded the Dorian shores, the modern tra- chap. 
veller may yet recognise, m the vessels of the - 
country, the simple mode of construction, and 
the style of navigation displayed by the arma- 
ment of Conon, and the galleys af Pisander. 
Placed within the Theatre of the city, and sur- 
rounded by so many objects calculated to 
awaken the memory of past events, he might 
imagine himself carried back to the aofe in 
which they were accompUshed ; neither will he 
find in any part of the country a scene where 
the memorials of Andent Greece have been less 
altered. Yet the whole coast of Asia Mixor, 
from the Triopian Promontory to the confines 
of Syria, remarkable for some of the most 
interesting ruins of Greece, lies almost unex- 
plored. Until the period at which this Journal 
was written, when the British fleet came to 
anchor in the spacious and beautiful Bay of 
Marmorice, the existence of such a harbour had 
not been ascertained ' : but there is no part of 
the south of Lycia and Caria where a gulph, 
a bay, a river, or a promontory, can be pointed 
out, on which some vestige of former ages may 
(1) The Journals of "Mr. Morritt and of Mr. Walpole contain much 
• valuable information concerning the interior of ^«a Minor, of which the 
author has not availed himself; because they relate to objects too far 
removed from the route here described ; and also because these Gentle- 
men, much batter qualified to do justice to their own valuable observations 
will, as it is hoped, present them to the public. 
