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All these islands, and the neighbouring coast of Asia Minor 
produced illustrious men. Samos gave birth to Pythagoras. 
Cos had her Apelles, and Hippocrates, whose tables of medical 
report were consulted by the inhabitants of all the neighbouring 
states. Their names have survived the fall of their country 
and of her empire, and that of the latter is still venerated in 
Ihe island. It would have been well for many individuals of 
the British Army and Navy, if the rules of Hippocrates re¬ 
specting diet had been observed, during the time they remained 
exposed to the climate of the Levant. He prohibited the use 
of eggs; and these are as poison to the natives of our island who 
visit the eastern shores of the Mediterranean.f 
We set out upon asses, accompanied by guides, to ascend the 
heights of the island, and view the fountain whence the town 
h still supplied with water, by means of an aqueduct. It is 
upon a mountain about three miles from the shore, and still 
bears the name of Hippocrates. The cover of the aqueduct h 
broken, in many places, by the women of the island, in procur¬ 
ing w ater to wash their linen. As we ascended, we had a fine 
prospect of the numerous adjacent islands, and of the opposite 
coast of Halicarnassus, now called Budrun\ . We follow- 
* Rocuil d'Aniiqirites, tom. ii. p. 219. Par. 1750. 
t Pofessor Pallas, writing from the Crimea, when we were about to sail Prom Con¬ 
stantinople for the Grecian isles, gave us this caution; Have a care of the three poisons ;■ 
eggs, butter, and milk; V' —I was afterward witness to the loss of a british officer, among 
many other examples of a similar nature, who, after persisting in the use of eggs for 
his breakfast, was seized with a fever off the coast of Egypt, became delirious, and 
during the night, leaped from his cabin into the sea and was drowned. Captain Russet 
<of the Ceres, lamented by all who knew him, aha fell a victim to the inattention paid, 
in this respect, to his diet. 
ft If any doubt should exist whether Budrun were the ancient Halicarnassus, or not 
it might be removed at once by this circumstance *, Strabo points out the situation of 
the island Aroonnesus; arid the small island opposite the,fort of Budrun is now called? 
Arcotmesp. The general appearance, of the place, moreover, agrees with the details 
