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bles from such a distance, when large
square blocks, better adapted to their
purpose, might have been procured so
much nearer: but, finding the former on
the spot, they might have been tempted
to work them in.

We also sought in vain for the small
and occult harbour, mentioned by Vitru-
vius, from which the fleet of Artemisia
sallied, when the city was attacked by
the Rhodians. This port is irreconcile-
able with the appearance of tbe present
line of shore; but as Pliny* asserts that
the island Zephyrus, (perhaps the penin-
sula on which the castle stands) had been
joined to Halicarnassus; so in the revo-
lutions of time, this harbour may have
been filled up. Our examination, how-
ever, of the eastern side of the town was
very cursory, and, perhaps, the situation
of the port may be hereafter discovered
by a more patient search.

Our next object of curiosity was the

* Plin. ii. 89.