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Clarke’s travels. 
presence of the father and his daughter, and begin diving. He 
who goes deepest in the sea, and remains longest under water, 
obtains the lady.* 
A north wind had prevailed from the time of our leaving the 
Dardanelles. It changed, however, as soon as we had put to 
sea from Rhodes, which induced us to stand over for the Gulph 
of Glaucus, now called Macri Bay, situated between the ancient 
provinces of Cavia and Lycia, in Asia Minor ;f a place difficult 
of access to mariners, and generally dreaded by Greek sailors, 
because when sailing toward it with a leading wind, they often 
encounter what is called a “ head wind,” blowingjfrom the gulph 
causing a heavy swell in its mouth, where they are also liable 
to dangerous calms, and to sudden squalls from the high moun¬ 
tains around. The appearance of all the south of Asia Minor, 
from the sea, is fearfully grand; and perhaps no part of it pos¬ 
sesses more eminently those sources of the sublime, which Burke 
has instructed us to find in vastness and terror, than the entrance 
to the gulph into which we were now sailing. The mountains 
around it, marking the confines of Caria and Lycia, are so ex¬ 
ceedingly high, that their summits are covered with deep snow 
throughout the year; and they are visible, at least to one third 
part of the whole distance, from the Asiatic to the African con¬ 
tinent. From Rhodes they are distinctly seen, although that 
island is rarely discerned from the mouth of the gulph, even in 
the clearest weather. Of this gulph it is not possible to obtain 
correct ideas, even from the best maps, as it is falsely delineated 
in all that have yet been published. It inclines so much toward 
the south, after passing the isles which obstruct the entrance, 
that ships may lie as in a basin. Its extremity is quite land¬ 
locked, although no such notion can be formed of it, from the 
appearance it makes, either in D’Anvilie’s atlas, or any more 
recent publication. The air of tins gulph, especially in summer. 
Is pestiferous. A complete mal aria ,f prevails over every part 
* Egmont and Hey man, vol. i. p. 266. When the antiquities obtained by our Eng¬ 
lish ambassador in Athens were sunk, by the loss of a vessel in the Bay of Cerigb, 
together with the valuable journals of his secretary, Mr. Hamilton, relating to his 
travels in Greece and Egypt, that gentleman, with great presence of mind, sent for 
some of these divers; who actually succeeded in penetrating to the ship’s hold, and 
in driving large iron bolts into the cases containing marbles, at the bottom of the sea, 
in ten fathoms depth : to these they afterward applied cords, and thus succeeded in 
raising part of the ship’s cargo. 
t Cicero, [lib i. Ds Divinatione ,] places the city of Telmessus in Caria. It seems 
rather to have belonged to Lycia. The mountains to the north and west of it formed 
the boundary between the two provinces. 
X The name generally given, in the Mediterranean, to those mephitic exhalations 
prevalent during the summer months, where the land has not been properly drained. 
The mouths of all rivers are thus infested; also, all cotton and rice grounds; places 
called lagunes , where salt is made ; all the plains of Thessaly and Macedonia, par- 
