fltOM tfHE HELLESPONT TO lliIODES< 
%& the course marked out by the aqueduct, all the way to the 
top of the mountain, where the spring rises. Some plants 
were then in bloom, but the spring was not so forward as we 
expected it to be; and I have since found, that, even in Egypt, 
a botanist will find fe w specimens for his herbary before the lat- 
description Vitruvius has given us of the situation of Halicarnassus, in his second book. 
The entrance to the port of JBudrun is from the southwest; on the right and left as you 
enter, sand has accumulated, and the free passage is not more than sixty yards wide; 
on the northwest side many Greeks and Turks were at work, employed in building a 
line of battle ship ; this I went to see. The Turk who conducted me over the vessel 
had been in Egypt at the time when our navy was there, and mentioned the names of 
some of the officers. The palace of fjalil-bey, the governor, stands by the seaside, on 
the north of the port; and directly opposite stands the castle of Budrun, and rouiid 
the harbour the town extends, in a circular sweep, for nearly half a mile. 
“ Budrun is a corruption, through Petrumi, as the Turks write it, from Pietro. The 
Fort of San Pietro, Castellvm Smcti Petri , (see the geography of Niger, 441,) was 
taken by Philibert de Nailar, grand master of R,hodes, and followeckthe fortunes of 
this island. It continued in possession of the knights, until, as the Turkish annals in- 
form us, it was surrendered to the Ottomans, with Cos and-Rhodes, in the 929th year 
<ni ; Hegira, and 1522 A. C„ “ Cum Rfiodo Turci arcem stancoinei Bedrum aliam arcem 
in Anatolia sitavi in polcstamen redcgereN Leunelavius, p. 842. 
“ Few travellers, I believe, have been able to examine the inside of the castle of 
Budrun. I had entered, and advanced some way, when I ‘was obliged to return, by 
order of a Turk, who made his appearance ; but not before I had taken the following 
notes :■ 
“ the first court, coming from the town, I saw some marble bas-reliefs fastened irr 
the <vall, in its construction ; their manner and style were very good ; but one in par¬ 
ticular struck me. It represents, on the right hand, a man on horseback, with a cloak 
round his neck, like that on the figure on the lamp engraven by Beger, in his letter to 
Spanheim ; he is throwing a javelin against another,, who is at the head of the horse 
with a shield; on the left of the stone is the foot of a man upon the body of another 
who is supporting himself on his left knee. In the wall by the sea, washing the sides of 
the castle, is an imperfect inscription, relating to Antoninus Pius ; 
KAIBAPIAAPIANniANTQNEINaiBEBxASTOIKAlQEOISSEBASTOIS 
44 Not far from this, is the headless statue of a Roman emperor or warrior Over 4 a 
gate in the castle I copied the following lines, in capital letters, with a stop after 
each word. The two first lines are taken from the anthem after the Nunc Dim itiis 
;'n Complin , or the night.prayers of the Roman church. The two last are taken fro® 
the ]27th Psalm. 
I. H. S. 
$alva nos, Domine, vigilantes, 
Custodi nos dormientes : 
Nisi domiaus custodierit civitatem, 
Frustra vigilat qui custodit earn. 
iS Ooats of arms, of different knights of the order of St. John, may be seen-sculptured! 
in parts of the fortress. Coronelli says, that over a gate was written Propter jidcrh 
Catholica?ntenemus istvm locum : and, in another place, the word Sarettboufe, with the 
date 1130; this points to an aera prior to that of the knights of Jerusalem, who did not 
possess it till the fourteenth century. Whence the bas-reliefs in the castle came f 
to what building they belonged ; whether to the palace of Mausolus, built on this spot, 
according to the description of Vitruvius, and beautified with marble (proconncsio 
marmore), or to some building of the time of Antorinus, to whom the inscription 
• was raised, cannot be determined, I was copying another inscription, beginning 
0EN AONEPXOMENOS* of a very late date, when I was obliged to quit the 
castle. 
“ The situation of the famous mausoleum in Halicarnassus is pointed out by Vitruk 
vius. Itseems to have been standing in the time of Pausanias, lib. viii. The words erf 
Constantine Porphyrogenetes, dcThem. c. 14, do not directly inform us whether it was 
extant when he wrote. Perhaps the Saracen Mavias, who succeeded Othman, and 
who, as the same Constantine .informs us, laid waste Halicarnassus, (de Admn, MM 
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