FROM RHODES TO THE GT7LPH OF GLAUCGS. 13$ 
CHAP. VIII. 
FROM RHODES TO THE GULPH'OF GLATJCUS, 
IN ASIA MINOR. 
Rhodes — Climate—Antiquities—'Hindus* — Inscriptions-—Fa¬ 
gan Ceremony—Divers of Syme and Nisyrus—Galph of 
Glaucus—Grandeur of the Scenery— Malaria —Genoese Isl¬ 
and—Ruins of Telmessus — Theatre—Oracular Cave—Se¬ 
pulchres of the Telmessensians—Tomb of Helen , daughter 
of Jason—Other Soroi — Mausoleum—Monolithal Sepulchres 
-—Ruins at Koynucky—■Turbulent State of the Country — 
Conduct of the Natives upon the Coast—New discovered 
Plants—Isle of Abercrombie . 
Rhodes is a most delightful spot The air of the place is 
healthy, aod its gardens are filled with delicious fruit. Here, 
as iu Cos, every gale is scented with powerful fragrance wafted 
from groves of orange aod citron trees. Numberless aromatic 
herbs exhale at the same time such profuse odour, that the 
whole atmosphere seems impregnated with a spicy perfume. 
The present inhabitants of the island confirm the ancient his¬ 
tory of its climate, maintaining that hardly a day passes, 
throughout the year, wherein the sun is not visible. Pagan 
writers describe it as so peculiarly favoured, that Jupiter is fa¬ 
bled to have poured down upon it a golden shower. The winds 
are liable to little variation; they are north, or northwest, dur¬ 
ing almost every month ; but these blow with great violence. 
From the number of appellations it bore at different periods, 
Rhodes might have at last received the name of the polyonoman 
island.* Its antiquities are too interesting to be passed over 
without notice ; but we were hastening to the coast of Egypt 9 
and contented ourselves by taking the few inscriptions found 
within the town, or its immediate vicinity.f The streets were 
* Ophiusa, from the number of its serpents ; Stadia , or Desert; Tdchinis , Corymbia ? 
Trinacra , JEthraa, from its cloudless sky; Jsteria, because at a distance the island 
appears as a star; Poessa , Jtabyria, Oloessa, Macaria , and Pelagia. “ Home are of 
opinion that Rhodes was first peopled by the descendants of Dodanim, the fourth son 
of Javan. Both the Septuagint and Samaritan translation of the Pentateuch ( Egmont 
and Heyman , vol. 1 . p. 269 .) instead of Dodanim , always use Rodanim; andbythis ap¬ 
pellation the Greeks always named the Rhodians.” 
f The ancient history of Rhodes, collected by Savary from different authors, and 
eoatamed ip the twelfth letter of bis Travels in Greece, may be considered the most 
