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INVESTIGATIONS AT ASSOS, 1881. 9
By far the best description given by any traveller is that of
Prokesch von Osten, whose most admirable book of " Oriental
Notes,"1 justly led to.the author's preferment to high official
position. The letter relating to the ruins of Assos is dated
at Mytilene, July, 1826; in it the author speaks of the remains
as the best preserved of all between the Propontis and the
Ionian coast. Apart from the interest of the general account,
the technically correct descriptions and accurate measure-
ments of monuments, then still in a comparatively perfect
state, are of a value to the present investigations which may
be estimated from the fact that the given dimensions of the
theatre and fortification walls, for instance, are not only more
trustworthy, but more complete, than those in the pretentious
work of the later French expedition under Texier.
After a lapse of thirty years, when the writings of Choiseul
and Olivier had become antiquated, the attention of the French
was again called to the ruins of Assos by the Oriental cor-
respondence of Michaud and Poujoulat.2 These companions
were separated at Baba,— Poujoulat going on horseback to
Behram, while their coasting vessel, upon which Michaud re-
mained, ill of a fever, was driven from the insecure port at the
cape by a storm of wind. Poujoulat's description of his jour-
ney to the ruins of Assos is graphic; but his understanding
of the antique was inadequate and led him into absurd mis-
takes, a number of which will be mentioned later on.
The admirable survey of the northern coast of the Gulf of
Adramyttion, made by Commander Copeland of the English
Navy, is dated in 1834.3 Upon it the position of Behram is
1 Denkwiirdigieiten und Erinnerungen aus dent Orient, vom Ritter Prokesch
von Osten. Aus Julius Schneller's Nachlass herausgegeben von Dr. Ernst Munch.
3 Biinde. Stuttgart. 1836-37.
2 Correspondence d'Orient. Par M. Michaud, de 1'Academie francaise, et M.
Poujoulat Vol. iii. Paris. 1834. Lettre Ixix.
3 Charts of the English Admiralty, No. 1665. Mytilene Island.
By far the best description given by any traveller is that of
Prokesch von Osten, whose most admirable book of " Oriental
Notes,"1 justly led to.the author's preferment to high official
position. The letter relating to the ruins of Assos is dated
at Mytilene, July, 1826; in it the author speaks of the remains
as the best preserved of all between the Propontis and the
Ionian coast. Apart from the interest of the general account,
the technically correct descriptions and accurate measure-
ments of monuments, then still in a comparatively perfect
state, are of a value to the present investigations which may
be estimated from the fact that the given dimensions of the
theatre and fortification walls, for instance, are not only more
trustworthy, but more complete, than those in the pretentious
work of the later French expedition under Texier.
After a lapse of thirty years, when the writings of Choiseul
and Olivier had become antiquated, the attention of the French
was again called to the ruins of Assos by the Oriental cor-
respondence of Michaud and Poujoulat.2 These companions
were separated at Baba,— Poujoulat going on horseback to
Behram, while their coasting vessel, upon which Michaud re-
mained, ill of a fever, was driven from the insecure port at the
cape by a storm of wind. Poujoulat's description of his jour-
ney to the ruins of Assos is graphic; but his understanding
of the antique was inadequate and led him into absurd mis-
takes, a number of which will be mentioned later on.
The admirable survey of the northern coast of the Gulf of
Adramyttion, made by Commander Copeland of the English
Navy, is dated in 1834.3 Upon it the position of Behram is
1 Denkwiirdigieiten und Erinnerungen aus dent Orient, vom Ritter Prokesch
von Osten. Aus Julius Schneller's Nachlass herausgegeben von Dr. Ernst Munch.
3 Biinde. Stuttgart. 1836-37.
2 Correspondence d'Orient. Par M. Michaud, de 1'Academie francaise, et M.
Poujoulat Vol. iii. Paris. 1834. Lettre Ixix.
3 Charts of the English Admiralty, No. 1665. Mytilene Island.