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tiired upon the walls. The Turks have converted chap. 
. . . VIII. 
the Sanctuary into a magazine for military stores. ^- ■■ 
Of Lindiis, now called Lindo, the antient capi- undui. 
tal of Rhodes, so little visited by travellers, so 
remarkable by its early claim to the notice of the 
historian ^ and so dignified by the talents to 
which it gave birth ^ we collected a few scattered 
observations from the clergy and surgeons of 
the British fleet. The chaplain of the Admiral's 
ship described the antiquities there as very 
numerous. He spoke of the ruins of a temple, 
w^hich may have stood upon the site of the fane 
originally consecrated by the Daughters of 
Danaus to the Lindian Minerva'^. When our 
(2) LiNDCswas founded by Egyptians un&er Danaus, fourteen hun- 
dred years before the Christian aera. It is one of the three cities alluded 
to by Corner- (U. B. 668. See also Slraho, lib. xiv.) Notice of it also 
occurs in the Parian Chronicle. 
(3) It gave birth to Cleobulus, one of the Seven Sages; and to Charea 
and Laches, the artists who designed and completed the Colossus. A 
mistake, highly characteristic of French authors, %vas committed by 
Voltaire, respecting this famous statue: it is noticed by 2ilentelle, in a note 
to the article Livdos, Encyclopcdie Melhodique. Voltaire having read 
Indian for Lindian, relates that the Colossus was cast by an Indian. 
(4) 'li^ov OS iffTr./ 'Afir,vai Aiyoicc; ithrcid i^ifxvi;, too* Aityat^at li^ufiif 
" There" [at Lindus) " is a conspicuous temple of tlie Lindian Minen-a, 
the work of the Danaidae." Strabnn. Geogr. lib. xiv. p. 9'.i7. Ed. Oxon. 
Savary says the ruins of this edifice are still visible, on an eminence near 
the sea: Letters on Greece, p. 96. The inhabitants here consecrated the 
7th Ode of Pindar's Ol j-mpics, by inscribing it in letters of gold : Ibid. 
Demetrius Triclinius. Lindus was the port resorted to by the fleets of 
Egypt and of Tyr<', before the building of Rhodes. Ibid. 
