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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.4719#0483
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THE XA1S"THIAK MARBLES.
455
said to Captain Graves, " I understand that it is your wish
to leave this duty and continue your survey;" the Captain
replied, " It is, Sir;" thus voluntarily giving up the expedi-
tion into the hands of others.
Having done all I could in instructing the officers about
to be employed, I left Malta on the 6th of April for Mar-
seilles in the French steam-packet. Before leaving I under-
stood that the expedition would start in two or three days.
I urged the necessity, in my letter to the Admiral, as well as
verbally, that no time should be lost; as the season, from
my experience of the climate, would be too hot, and as I
feared if the expedition were there after the middle of May
the waters from the melting snows would have ceased to fill
the river, which would probably become too shallow for navi-
gation. I regret to say that the Medea steam-ship, appointed
for the service, did not leave Malta until the 28th of April,
and then sailed to Athens, not arriving at Xanthus until the
13th of May, the time at which all the work should have been
accomplished. It was the 8th of June before the party left
the coast. At this season the Turks had put the valley under
irrigation, and had themselves retired to their summer farms
in the Teeilassies of the mountains. Noxious evaporation
and malaria were the consequence, and fever appeared among
the seamen on board the Monarch at anchor off the coast.
The stone-sawyers taken from Malta to divide the heavy
stones of the Horse Tomb had several weeks' work before
them; it was impossible to allow the sailors to remain in the
country, therefore all sailed away, bringing seventy-eight of
the cases, and leaving the Horse Tomb for another season.
The striking beauty of this monument will be the guarantee
for its arriving where art is appreciated.
The seventy-eight cases were safely deposited at Malta by
the end of June, and were brought to England in H.M. ship
Cambridge in December.
I cannot close this account without adding the very flat-
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Xixdi-
ajei Ircf:
THE XA1S"THIAK MARBLES.
455
said to Captain Graves, " I understand that it is your wish
to leave this duty and continue your survey;" the Captain
replied, " It is, Sir;" thus voluntarily giving up the expedi-
tion into the hands of others.
Having done all I could in instructing the officers about
to be employed, I left Malta on the 6th of April for Mar-
seilles in the French steam-packet. Before leaving I under-
stood that the expedition would start in two or three days.
I urged the necessity, in my letter to the Admiral, as well as
verbally, that no time should be lost; as the season, from
my experience of the climate, would be too hot, and as I
feared if the expedition were there after the middle of May
the waters from the melting snows would have ceased to fill
the river, which would probably become too shallow for navi-
gation. I regret to say that the Medea steam-ship, appointed
for the service, did not leave Malta until the 28th of April,
and then sailed to Athens, not arriving at Xanthus until the
13th of May, the time at which all the work should have been
accomplished. It was the 8th of June before the party left
the coast. At this season the Turks had put the valley under
irrigation, and had themselves retired to their summer farms
in the Teeilassies of the mountains. Noxious evaporation
and malaria were the consequence, and fever appeared among
the seamen on board the Monarch at anchor off the coast.
The stone-sawyers taken from Malta to divide the heavy
stones of the Horse Tomb had several weeks' work before
them; it was impossible to allow the sailors to remain in the
country, therefore all sailed away, bringing seventy-eight of
the cases, and leaving the Horse Tomb for another season.
The striking beauty of this monument will be the guarantee
for its arriving where art is appreciated.
The seventy-eight cases were safely deposited at Malta by
the end of June, and were brought to England in H.M. ship
Cambridge in December.
I cannot close this account without adding the very flat-