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COLOSSUS OF RHODES.
[Chap, xxxiv.
its legs set apart, the distance from pier to pier would have
been about thirty-five feet. There is only one place where
this could have existed ; the eastern harbour is in fact little
more than a small open hay without piers ; the western har-
bour has them, but the entrance is above two hundred feet
wide ; there is, however, an inner harbour, well protected
from the swell of the sea, and entered by a narrow passage
between two ruined piers. It is indeed impossible to decide
the breadth of the former entrance, hut, from the situation
of the fallen stones, and the manner in which the present
passage is blocked up by them, I should not think the
opening when perfect could have exceeded forty feet; and
here may have stood the Colossus. The other antiquities
of Rhodes scarcely deserve to be particularly noticed : it
possesses a few sepulchral cippi, but they are without in-
scriptions. Some remains of the old city are also to be
seen in the gardens and fields beyond the Greek quarter,
and on the hills to the west of the town. The ancient city,
however, must have covered the site of the present town,
and the harbours now used are undoubtedly identical with
those of the earliest periods of its existence.
COLOSSUS OF RHODES.
[Chap, xxxiv.
its legs set apart, the distance from pier to pier would have
been about thirty-five feet. There is only one place where
this could have existed ; the eastern harbour is in fact little
more than a small open hay without piers ; the western har-
bour has them, but the entrance is above two hundred feet
wide ; there is, however, an inner harbour, well protected
from the swell of the sea, and entered by a narrow passage
between two ruined piers. It is indeed impossible to decide
the breadth of the former entrance, hut, from the situation
of the fallen stones, and the manner in which the present
passage is blocked up by them, I should not think the
opening when perfect could have exceeded forty feet; and
here may have stood the Colossus. The other antiquities
of Rhodes scarcely deserve to be particularly noticed : it
possesses a few sepulchral cippi, but they are without in-
scriptions. Some remains of the old city are also to be
seen in the gardens and fields beyond the Greek quarter,
and on the hills to the west of the town. The ancient city,
however, must have covered the site of the present town,
and the harbours now used are undoubtedly identical with
those of the earliest periods of its existence.