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c larks’s travels. 
similar edifices were afterward denominated.* The whole 
coast of Asia Minor, from the Triopian promontory to the 
confines of Syria, remarkable for some of the most interesting 
ruins of Greece, is almost unknown. Until the period at 
which this journal was written, when the British fleet found 
anchorage in the spacious and beautiful bay of Marmorice, no 
map or chart indicated sucli a harbour :f yet there is no part 
of the coast, where a gulph, bay, river, or promontory, can be 
pointed out, on which some vestige of former ages may not be 
discerned ; many of these are of the remotest antiquity ; and 
all of them are calculated to throw light upon passages in 
ancient history. 
After losing sight of the ruins of Cnidus, we sailed in view 
of Syme and of Rhodes; an eminence, called the Table Moun¬ 
tain , first appearing upon the latter, and seeming itself insular, 
as if separated from the rest of the island. Toward the south, 
midway between the islands of Crete and Rhodes, we saw the 
Carpathian Isles, at a prodigious distance, and quite surprising, 
considering the distinct prospect we had of the largest, now 
called Scarpanto. We had favourable breezes the whole night, 
and the next morning entered the old port of Rhodes, between 
the two piers, on which it is fancifully asserted, by some mo¬ 
dern writers, that the feet of the celebrated Colossus formerly 
rested.;); The mouth of this harbour is so choked with ruins, 
that small vessels alone are able to enter: even our little bark 
ran aground before she came to her anchor. 
% Upon the coast, or in the port of Cnidus, was decided the memorable naval com¬ 
bat, considered by Polybius as marking the sera when the Spartans lost the command 
of the sea, obtained by their victory over the Athenians in the Hellespont. Although 
above two thousand years have passed, since the squadrons of Persia, from all the 
ports of Asia, crowded the Dorian shores, the modern traveller may recognize, in the 
vessels of the country, the simple mode of construction, and the style of navigation, 
displayed by the armament of Conon, and the galleys of Pisander. Placed within the 
theatre of the city, surrounded by so many objects calculated to awaken the memory 
of past events, he might imagine himself carried back to the age in Avhich they were 
accomplished; neither 'would he find in any part of the country a scene where the 
memorials of ancient Greece have been less altered. Yet the place is now scarcely 
known. 
t The journals of Mr. Morritt, and of Mr. Walpole, contain much valuable informa¬ 
tion concerning the interior of Asia M inor, of which I have not availed myself; both 
as they relate to objects too far from the route here described, and because these gen¬ 
tlemen, much better qualified to do justice to their own valuable observations, will, it 
is hoped, present them to the public. 
j: It is somewhat remarkable, that this circumstance, neither mentioned by Strabo 
nor by Pliny, both of whom described the statue, continues erroneously propagated. 
