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Others are engaged ]□ seizing an animal, as a victim for sacri¬ 
fice. The animal has the appearance of a tiger, or a leopard.^ 
These beautiful remains of Grecian sculpture may have been 
consequences of the vicinity of Cos to Halicarnassus, Cnidus, 
and other cites of Asia Minor, where the art attained to such 
high perfection; or they may have all resulted from the de¬ 
struction of some magnificent edifice whereby the island was 
formerly adorned. Columns of cipoiino, breccia, and granite* 
t ogether with blocks of the finest marble, either upon the shore, 
in the courts, and indosures belonging to the inhabitants, or 
used in constructing the walls of the town and fortress, in the 
public fountains, mosques, mortars, and grave stones, the pave¬ 
ment of baths, and other modern works, denote the ruin that 
has taken place, and the immense quantity of ancient materials 
here employed. The mosque of the town of Stanehio is built 
entirely of marble. 
The voyage from Cos to Rhodes, like that already describ¬ 
ed, resembles more a pleasing excursion in a large river, than 
in the open sea. The Mediterranean is here so thickly plant¬ 
ed with islands, that the view is everywhere bounded by land.f 
We steeredclose round the Triopian Promontory, now called 
Cape Crio , and, having doubled it, beheld, toward the west 
and southwest, the islands of Nisyrus and Telus, whose mo¬ 
dern names are Nizaray and Piscopy . According to Strabo, 
Nisyrus anciently possessed a temple of Neptune.J We af¬ 
terward obtained a most interesting view, from the deck, of the 
ruins of Cnidus, a city famous in having produced the most re¬ 
nowned sculptors and architects of ancient Greece. The Turks 
and Greeks have long resorted thither, as to a quarry, for the 
building materials afforded by its immense remains. With the 
aid of our telescopes we could still discern a magnificent thea¬ 
tre almost entire, and many other mouldering edifices. This 
city stood on the two sides of an ancient mole, separating its two 
ports, and connecting the Triopian land, in Strabo’s time an 
island, with the continent.^ 
We alsosaw here the remains of a sculptured marble frieze, exhibiting festoons 
supported by ancient masks. The principal part of it is in the land side of the castle, 
over the entrance, where may also be observed part of a Corinthian cornice of the 
finest workmanship. 
t Called sporades from the irregularity wherein they are here scattered. Some of 
them are not laid down in any chart; although T believe the observations of captain 
Castle; the master of our vessel, made upon a map of Arrowsmitrfs, have been sine© 
/transmitted, to England, and published. 
x Straiy Ceogr. jib. x. p. 714. Ed. Gxon. 
. | We are indebted for the information which I shall here subjoin, concerning Hali¬ 
carnassus and Cnicius, together .with the plan which accompanies it, to the observa¬ 
tions o§ %\v. Abort'iit; c&Lesbi&ted for his controversy with Mr. Bryant, on the subject 
