RUINS OF TELMESSUS. 301 
Near the same place was also the capital of an chap. 
Ionic pilaster; having the architect's name, »-, y * 
Hermolycus, so engraven upon it as not to 
be discerned when the building, to which it 
belonged, was perfect; the letters being in- 
scribed behind the capital, where the stone 
^▼as intended to be placed against a wall ; and 
thus written : 
€ PHOAYKOY 
Not being able to discover any other anti- 
quities within the town, we passed through it, 
towards the east^; and here we had ample 
employment, in the midst of the sepulchres of 
the Telmessensians. Some of them have been 
delineated, but without accuracy or effect, 
in the work of Monsieur de Choiseul Goiiffier'. 
They are the sepulchres to which allusion was 
made in a former volume, when discussing the 
Cl) The remains of Genoese and of f'enetian buildings cover all the 
coast near to the town. We found here, in full bloom, that exceed- 
ingly rare plant, the Aristolochia Maurorutn. It is badly represented 
in Toumefmt's Travels, torn. II. p. 79- The singular colour of the 
r'.ower, and also its brown leaves, made it at first doubtful to us 
^\hethe^ it were an animal or a plant. It grows also near to the ruins 
of the Theatre. 
(2) lot/age Pittmesque de la Grece. This has been stated for the 
purpoie of contradicting a Note published in the English edition of 
Savory's Letters on Greece, p. 49- Lond. 1788. ; where it i; said, that 
" these antient monuments are delineated with great minuteness and 
accuraci/ 
