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the afternoon. We had propofed paffing the night here, as our
men and horfes were weary, but could get neither lodging nor
corn.
A f t e r dining beneath a tree, we continued our journey
acrofs a ridge to Cadoagi, a fmall place near an hour farther
on. Here we had our tent pitched for the firft time within an
inclofure by a cottage, and ilept in it. Our bedding was a fmall
carpet, mattrefs, and coverlet. Each had by his fide a gun,
fword, and a pair of loaded piftols. The Swifs guarded the
mouth of the tent. The nights were as yet cold, and our janizary
was provided with a cloke of a dark colour, lhaggy, and
very thick, made without a feam, with a cape or rather cowl
for his head. Wrapped in this, he lay down like Diomed in his
bull-lkin, in the open air, with his piftol and fabre by him, and
his gun in his hand. Our other attendants were likewife dif-
perfed, moftly on the ground, round about the tent, armed as
by day; and one of the Armenians watched the horfes, which
were fattened to flakes with their faddles on.
A t the dawn of day we rofe, and a table-cloth was fpread
on the ground, when we breakfafted on dried figs, bread, butter,
which we carried with us, and garlic; drinking wine or water;
and a cup of coffee. In the mean time our men ftruck the tent,
and got ready our baggage. The fun only began to appear on
the mountain-top, and a low fhining mitt concealed the valley
beneath us, when we began our journey; travelling over and
between the wild ridges of mount Mimas. In two hours we
came to a vale, well watered, and ftored with myrtles and evergreens.
Here we obferved fome pieces of an antient wall, which
■ hpd been erected acrofs it ; and after paffing the ruin of a mofque,
• which has a fepulchral infcription fixed over the door way, an
opening afforded us a view of the fite of Erythrse, of the fea, and
-of the ifland Scio. We entered at a gap in the ruins of the city-
wall, where we fuppofed a gate-way to have been; and finding
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no fhade, pitched our tent on a green fpot, extending it as a wide
umbrella to fhelter us from the fun, then fhining exceedingly
bright and powerful.
T he walls of Erythrse were eredted on two femicircular rocky
brows, and had fquare towers at regular diftances. They were very
thick,the ftones maffive and rugged,the mafonry that called pfeud-
ifodomum. In the middle was a fhallow lively ftream, clear as
chryftal, which turns a folitary mill in its way to the fea. This
rivulet was antiently named Aleos, and was remarkable for producing
hair on the bodies of thofe who drank of it. Near the
mouth is a piece of ordinary mofaic pavement. By a conical hill
on the north are veftiges of an ample theatre in the mountain-
fide; and farther on, by the fea, three pedeflals of white marble
; and an old fquare fortrefs Handing on a low fpot, a little
inland. We fearched in vain for a temple of Hercules, which
has been mentioned as of the higheft antiquity, and as refem-
bling the temples of Egypt. The God was reprefented on a
float, on which they related that he arrived at Erythrse from
Phoenicia.
Before the port of Erythrse are four iflets, once called Hlppi,
“The Horfes; and beyond thefe are the Spalmadore iflands, byr
which we failed in our ftormy paflage from Scio to. Kara-bornu.
A promontory of mount Mimas beyond Erythrse was named
Coryna; and one near mid-way failing toward Scio, Hera
Mefate.
E rythrse has been long deferted, and, like Clazomene,
ftripped even of its ruins, except fome mattes of hard cement, a
few vaults of fepulchres, a fragment of infcribed architrave, a
broken column or two, and a large ftone, on which is carved a
round fhield. The rock afforded a. natural foundation for the
houfes and public edifices, and the materials, when they were
ruined, lay ready to be tranfported to Scio and other places,
which continued to flourifh. Some words were vifible on one
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