The heap of the temple is vifihle from it, beneath, on the right
hand.
T he city-port is partly dry, and fend banks rife above the
furface of the water. On the edge are veftiges of a wall, and
before it are two fmall iflets. On the left hand, or toward the
continent, is a channel, which feemed artificial, the water not
deep. I faw a boy wade acrofs it. This, unlefs it be the
mouth of a rivulet, was probably cu t; for it feems as necefiary
to the completion of Alexander’s plan, that a communication
Ihould have been made between the lea here and the bay of
Gerre, as between that and the gulf of Smyrna; and it is remarkable,
that Pliny reckons Teos among the iflands. Beyond
it, by the Ihore before Sevri-hiffar, which Hands inland, are four
or five tall barrows.
T he temple of Bacchus at Teos was one of the moft celebrated
ftrudtures in Ionia. The remains of it have been engraved
at the expenfe of the fociety of Dilettanti, and publilhed,
with its hiftory, in the Ionian Antiquities j and a beautiful Portico
has iince been eredted at the feat of the Right Hon. Lord
Le Defpenfer, near High-Wykeham, under the infpedtion of
Mr. Revett, in which the exadt proportions of the order are
ohferved.
T he town has long been deferted. It has no ruins o f
churches, to prove it exifted under the Greek emperors ; nor of
mofques or baths, to Ihow it was frequented by the Turks. In
the time of Anacreon, the Teians migrated from a love of
liberty to Thrace, but feme afterwards came back, and the
city re-flourifhed. They are now utterly gone, and it is likely
never to return. The fite is a wildernefs; and the low grounds,
which are wet, produce the iris or flag, hlue and white. This
flower is damped on the money of Teos. We law cranes here
(talking fingly in the corn and grafs, and picking up and gorging
infedls and reptiles j or flying heavily with long flicks in
their
their mouths to the tops of trees, and of the remoter houfes
and chimnies, on which they had agreed to fix their habitation.
T he mafter of a Venetian fnow, in the harbour of Segigeck,
furnifhed us with a fmall quantity of wine, but of a poor quality
j otherwife we Ihould have drank only water on a fpot once
facred to Bacchus, and able to fupply a Roman fleet. The
grave Turk, its prefent owner, predefines the clufters of the
few vines it now bears, for his food, when ripened j or to be
dried in the fun, as raifins, for fale.
. C H A P. XXVIII.
’To Sevri-hijfar---- Quarries o f marble----- The town___ The
Tionyfiajls, &c.
O U R apprehenfions of danger from the Kara-borniotes were
now at an end. We difmifled the Janizary, whom we had engaged
at Vourla, and on the thirty firft o f March, on the evening
of the fecond day after our arrival, proceeded to Sevri-hiflar,
diflant one hour fouth-eaftward. We came, foon after leaving
Segigeck, between two conical rocks, one of a green afpedt,
the other brown and bare. The tall trees by the road-fide were
covered with fpreading vines, and at a well was a marble pedeftal
perforated, and ferving as a mouth. The front of it is in-
feribed with large charadters, and it once fupported the ftatue of
a great and munificent perfon, whofe name it has not preferved.
T he gray marble ufed by the Teians was found at no great
diftance from the city. The rocks above-mentioned are probably
remains of the quarry, to which, alfo the high rocky mount,
about a mile north of Teos, feen in the view in the Ionian Antiquities,
belonged. This, as Pocock relates, has, on the wefl-
fide, a fmall lake' iff a deep bafin, which, it is imagined by the
N 2 people,