120 ' clarke’s travels. 
The next morning we came to anchor in the harbour of the 
Isle of Cos, now called Staachio, where the sea appears en¬ 
tirely landlocked; as indeed it does for a very considerable 
distance from the island, toward the north. One of the in¬ 
habitants, as soon as we landed, brought me a brass medal of 
the island, with the head of Hippocrates, and the w ord KmnN. 
It is the more interesting, as few medals are now found at Cos, 
I could neither procure nor hear of a single one in silver. In 
other respects, the island abounds in antiquities; but they are 
scattered in such a confused manner, that nothing decisive can 
be collected from their appearance. In the wall of the quay, 
facing the port, I observed the colossal marble statue of a fe¬ 
male, w ith drapery finely executed, but the head, arms, and 
feet, had been broken off. On the left-hand side of the gate 
by which we entered the town, an inscription remains, in a 
high state of preservation, beginning abotaakaioaamox : 
this has already been published by Spou and by other authors, 
and therefore needs not to be inserted here. 
A plane tree, supposed, and perhaps with reason, the largest 
in the world, is yet standing within the market place. It was 
described as the famous plantain tree, half a century ago, by 
sidiura, toward Jassus, are also covered with arhutus, the dwarf oak, and the pine : 
those mountains are the haunts of numerous beasts, particular]y of the jackal, (called 
by the Turks, chical ,) which disturbed us in the night by its cries. The road is often 
cut through masses of slate; sometimes it is paved; by the side of it are small huts, of 
wood, covered with boughs, for the purpose of selling coffee to travellers, chiefly in 
summer time; they are generally by t he side of a running stream. The soil was loose, 
and easily'yielded to the plough. The quantity of ground, which might be brought 
into cultivation for corn, or pasture for cattle, is very great; but it is neglected, from 
want of persons to till it The rain had now increased the torents descending from 
the mountains so much, that it was quite dangerous to pass them. The southwest 
brought with it rain; the northeast, a sharp cold air; these two winds are called by 
the Turks, lofios, and vdreas; names borrowed from the Greek. 
“ The road leads on to Casikli for three hours, by the sea; you then turn to the 
east, for the same time; and reach Assum, (Jassus,) the situation of which, in the re¬ 
cess of a bay, looking over oli ve grounds to the sea, and thence to the high mountains 
near Halicarnassus, is beautiful. To this last place now called Bodrun , the road led 
me through groves of myrtle, and ilex, by the seashore, For two hours and a half, 1 
shall here subjoin the distances of some of the places on the coast. 
Hours 
From Priene to the Meander ..... 3 
To Acqui .. 1 
To Ura (Temple of Apollo) ....... 2 1-2 
To Casikli .......... .51-2 
To Assum.. 6 
The direct route from this last place to Halicarnassus I cannot give as I wish; as we 
lost our way, going for three quarters of an hour, through a ba3^of the sea, up to the 
horses’ girts ; and riding all the day in rain, until half past nine, when the barking of 
dogs guided us to a Turkish hut, where I slept ; the next morning at eight, I set out 
again, passing some fluted columns; and in a valley, some beehives, made of earthen¬ 
ware, cylindrical, about two feet and a half in height; riding among mountains, I 
reached a coffee hut, at Guverchin, by the shore, in a bay, running east and west; 
and in four hours and a half arrived at Halicarnassus.” Walpole's MS. Journal , 
