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fewer of the ruffian industry of their de-
stroyers. The whole area of the city is
one promiscuous mass of ruins; among.
which may be traced streets and gate-
ways, porticoes and theatres ; but the
shortness of our stay left no time to ex-
amine them in detail, being chiefly em-
ployed in making a sketch of the two
harbours and the adjacent coast.

It appears from Herodotus,* that Trio-
pium was a peninsula, whose isthmus, be-
ing only five stadia across, the Cnidians
endeavoured to insulate their territory,
as a means of defence against the ap-
proach of Harpagus. This cannot apply
to the small peninsula of Cape Krio ; for
the major part of the city of Cnidus was
on the main land. The gulfs of Kos
and Symi, however, may somewhere ap-
proach so as to form the narrow isthmus
to which he alludes ; the distant view of
the ridge, which separates these gulfs, cer-
tainly appeared to confirm this supposi-

* Lib. i. 74.