VIII. 
290 GULPH OF GLAUCUS. 
CHAP, became a striking example of the powerful 
influence of such air, not only in the fever 
which there attacked him, but in a temporary 
privation of the use of his limbs, which continued 
until he put to sea again. It may generally 
be remarked, that wherever the ruins of antient 
cities exist, the air is bad; owing to water 
which has been made stagnant by the destruc- 
^tion «f aqueducts, of conduits that were used 
for the public baths, and to the filling up of 
channels formerly employed to convey water, 
which is now left, forming fens and stinking 
pools. But it is not to such causes alone that 
the bad air of the Bay of M«cn maybe ascribed. 
The lofty mountains, entirely surrounding it, 
leave the Gulph, as it were, in the bottom of a 
pit, where the air has not a free circulation, 
and where the atmosphere is often so sultry, 
that respiration is difficult : at the same time, 
sudden gusts of cold wind rush down, at inter- 
vals, from the snowy heights, carrying fever 
and death to those who expose their bodies to 
such refreshing but deceitful gales. Yet the 
temptations to visit this place, notwithstanding 
the danger, are lamentably strong ; there is no 
part of the Grecian territory more interesting in 
its antiquities than the Gulph of Glaucus. The 
Ruins of Telmessus are as little known, as they 
are remarkable in the illustration they afford 
