CHAP. 
viir. 
Gulph of 
GUwcux. 
288 FROM RHODES, 
A north wind had psevailed from the time of 
our leaving the Dardanelles. It changed, how- 
ever, as soon as we had put to sea from Rhodes^ 
which induced us to stand over for the Gulph 
of Glaucus, now called Maori Bay, situate 
between the antient provinces of Caria and 
Lyciay in Asia Minor'; a place difficult of 
access to mariners, and generally dreaded by 
Greek sailors, because, when sailing to\vards it 
with a leading wind, they often encounter what 
is called a ^ head wind,' blowing from the Gulph, 
causing a heavy swell within its mouth, where 
they are also liable to dangerous calms, and to 
sudden squalls from the high mountains around. 
Grandeur Xhc appearancc of all the south of j4sia Minor, 
of the See- . 
nery. froiii tlic sca, is fcarfully grand ; and perhaps 
no part of it possesses more eminently those 
sources of the sublime, which Burke has 
instructed us to find in vastness and in terror, 
than the entrance to the gulph into which we 
were now sailing. The mountains around it, 
marking the confines of Caria and Lycia, are 
j?o exceedingly high, that their summits are 
covered with deep snow throughout the year ; 
(l) Cicero (lib.i. de Divinatione) places the city of Telmessus in 
Caria. It seems rather to have belong-ed to Lycia. " Qucb Lyciam 
finit Telmessus," says PUmj (Hist. Nat. lib. v. cap. 27.) The moun- 
tains to the 7iO)th and ivest of it formed the bouiulary hetweea the t\¥o 
provinces. 
