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XI. Fate Scepsis is yet recognized in the appellation Esktp 
XII. Mne is (lie Aina a of Strabo; and JEm Tepe , perhaps, \ 
the Tomb of Mneas. 
XIII. The extremity of the Adramyitian gulph inclines 
round the ridge of Gargams, toward the northeast; so that the [ 
circumstance of Xerxes having this mountain upon his left, in j 
his march from Antandrus to A'oydus, is thereby explained. 
XIY. Gargarus affords a view not only of all the plain of 
Troy, but of all the district of Troas, and a very considerable 
portion of the rest of Asia Minor. 
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CHAP. VII. 
FROM THE HELLESPONT TO RHODES. 
Transactions at the Dardanelles—Public Sports*—Inscriptions 
—Voyage down the Hellespont — Tenedos—Rectum Promon¬ 
tory—Lesbos—Erythraean Straits — Chios—Straits of Sa¬ 
mos—Burning Vapour—View of Patmos and the Cyclades— 
Pirates — Cos—Plane Tree — Inscriptions—Fountain fo Hip¬ 
pocrates—Greek Manuscripts—Beautiful piece of Ancient 
Sculpture—Voyage from Cos to Rhodes—Ruins of Cnidus 
—visited by Morrit—and by Walpole—Carpathian Isles —* 
Rhodes . 
We were detained some time at the Dardanelles, waiting for 
the vessel from Constant inople: this came at last, so deeply 
laden with stores, for the supply of our army in Egypt, that we 
were almost afraid to venture on board. She had the name of 
The Taurida , and was literally nothing more than a covered 
boat Mercantile speculations make bold adventurers. Few 
persons would have volunteered an expedition across £he Me¬ 
diterranean in such a bark; but our good captain comforted us 
with the assurance, that Columbus sailed across an unknown 
ocean in a skiff of less promise. He had cast anchor, higher 
up the Straits, toward the Sea of Marmora, where vessels from 
Constantinople lie secure from all winds, and find better ground. 
There is no good anchorage at the Dardanelles* Captain Castle* 
had fitted up a - small apartment in the stern, to serve as a cabin ; 
