RHODES LINDUS. 429 
viir. 
Coming opposite to Ltndus, the weather being ^^,^^' 
calm, the author was enabled to complete an 
outline of this once-favoured land % according to 
its bearing at the time. It embraces nearly its 
whole extent, from north to south; shewing the 
relative position of Ltndus and Rhodes, and 
the appearance exhibited by its rough, craggy, 
and broken land, as compared with the features 
of other islands represented in the former sec- 
tion. The country immediately around Lindus 
is described by Philostratus as being the most 
rugged of the Rhodian territory. It was par- 
ticularly favourable for the cultivation of the 
vine and i\\Q Jig-tree, but ill adapted to other pur- 
poses of agriculture, and impassable for carts 
and waggons. In this, perhaps, it resembled 
the Land ofJudcea, where corn has always been 
cultivated by means of terraces formed upon 
the sides of the mountains. From the nature 
of the land about Lindus, the whole island re- 
ceived the appellation which it bears in Statins*, 
of " the rugged Rhodes.'' Our pilots pointed out 
to* "US' the eminence on which the remains of 
antient Lindus are situate. The collection of 
•rarities once dedicated in votive offerings at tlie 
(3) " Puicherrima et libera Rhodos." Plm. Hist. Nat. I. v. e. 3\. 
Jj. Bat. 1635. See also Lucian. 
(4 In Equo Domitietni, lib. ii. 
