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crystal* It conducts to a lofty vaulted chamber, cut m the 
rock, and shaped like a bee-hive, with an aperture at the t >p, 
admitting air and light from the surface of the mountain. We 
proceeded with lighted tapers to this curious cavern, and tasted 
the water at its source. It is a hot spring, with a chalybeate 
habitant of the vegetable kingdom : it has forty-seven branches, each a fathom thick, 
“I rode to a village two hours and a half distant from the town, called Afl’endiou, 
perhaps the st.andio of Porcacchi, on the road I copied many Greek inscriptions. In. 
returning to the town by a different dii ection, we came to a source of cold mineral wa¬ 
ter; at half an hour’s distance from this, above in the rock, is a source of hot water* 
where there are remains of basins, wherein those Avho used the water were accustomed 
to bathe. In half an hour more we came to the place called the .fountain of Hippo¬ 
crates; a light was procured, and we walked into a passage fifty yards in length, six 
feet high, and four wide ; at the bottom ran a stream of water, in a channel five inches 
broad; we reached at last a circular chamber, ten feet in diameter; this is built quite 
near the source. The water running from beneath the circular chamber, through the 
channel, is conveyed, as soon as it reaches the open air, by another channel, covered 
with tile and stone, over a space of ground equal to four miles, and supplies the town 
of Cos. 
“ The road from Affendiou to the town is very striking. The fertility of the 
Island is celebrated now' in the Levant, as in the days of Strabo, who calls it tvaapnos,: 
and the language of The vet would have appeared perfectly correct, if I had been there 
at a different season ot the year ; ‘ Etpense ■qjie soubz lead n'y a lieu plaisant que cdug 
Id, veu les beaux jar dins si odoriferans, que vous diriez que c'est wi Paradis , ter lestre,. 
did ou les oiseaux de toutes sorles recremt de leur ramaged . See his Cosmogra¬ 
phy, 229. - 
“ Whilst I was at Cos, I took a boat, and went tosee what I supposed to be the ruins 
of Myndus ; where, among other interesting remains, is a longjettec of stones, parallel 
to each other,,and principally of thirteen feet in length, connecting an island to the-' 
main land. I went also to the ruins of Cnidus, at Cap Crio. It was the first of De¬ 
cember, and we had hardly time to enter one of the small harbours of Cnidus, when a- 
gale from the southwest, the wind usual at this time of the year, began to blow, * The 
libs, or southwest.. ’ says Theophrastus, (de Frntis, 413) ‘ is very violently fell at 
Cnydus and Rhodes :' and one of the harbours of Cnidus is open to this quarter^ 
There is no village or appearance of habitation now at Cnidus. 1 lay in the open- 
boat all night, and the Turkish sailors in a cave on shore. The following are the re- 
oiains of antiquity I observed there. 
tk On the left-hand side of the harbour, as you enter from Cos, upon a platform, are 
the lower parts of the shafts of eleven, fluted columns, standing, and of very small di¬ 
mensions : around the platform is a ruined wall; a sort of quay was formed round this 
port, as may be inferred from the stonework. Beyond the fluted columns are vaults 
of very modern work, and vestiges of buildings; these maybe ascribed to t|ie time 
when the knights of St.. John were at Rhodes, and had stations on the coast cl Asia it* 
this part. Passing on eastward, you. come to the theatre, facing the southwest, with 
thirty-six rows of seats of marble-; part of the proscenium; two vaults, opposite each, 
other; and in the area of the theatre the mutilated statue of a woman, in drapery ; 
the head of this, as one of the Turkish boatmen informed me; had been, taken to a 
neighbouring village, to be hollowed fora mortar. On the level summit ofthe hill over 
the theatre, and commanding a view of the sea, are very large remains of a temples 
the side of the hill is faced with stone; the ground is covered with fragments oi white 
• marble columns,with Ionic capitals. I measured one of the columns ; this was in 
diameter three feet and a half. The Cnidians had,, according to Pausanias, many tem¬ 
ples of Venus ; anti we may conjecture this to have been the site of one. Below the 
hill is a large area; and under it, a larger still.. Am isthmus separates the small port,, 
wherein I anchored, from a larger harbour. Following this neck -of land in a westerly 
direction, you reach the other part of the town, opposite to that where the theatre and 
public buildings were situated. A bridge, says Pausanias, once'formed the communi¬ 
cation from one side to the other. Thfere are extensive foundations lying to the east 
#f the theatre and temple; but 1^ was .not able to\ find any inscription ©k money of the 
ancient city. The earthenware of Cnidus is praised by Atben.aeus (lib. i.); and the ca~ 
' laMi or reeds,which grew here, Avere the best, says Pliny, after those of Egypt. The 
nse of reeds for Avriting prevails now, as formerly, all over the east; and they are 
prepared as in ancient times. 4 With a knife,’ says iSalmasius, ‘ the reed was slit into 
two points ; hence, iri an epigram, we find, xdAapo! .durcoTcrl 5i&y\vTr70i xt^dfcrcrl, car 
fmi in duos apiees seisin Ad Selimmf Walpole's MS. Journal^ 
