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TOPOGRAPHY OP HALICARNASSUS. 27'5
looking down1 from the heights which he occupied,
lie saw the two citadels, Salmacis and the fortress
in the island, still occupied "by the Persians. It is
quite evident that he must have first secured his
position in the highest part of the city, taking
possession of the fort on the conical hill and the
rocky salient near the Mylasa gate, and that he
must have then descended to the shore.
The rocky peninsula, formerly an island, has
been already noticed (see ante, pp. 10, 38), and
will be more fully described in Mr. Pullan's account
of the Castle of St. Peter, which forms one of the
appendices to this work. Here stood a Greek
citadel, of which the walls may still be traced by
the beds cut for their foundations on the south
side of the Castle of St. Peter, and near the central
keep.
This peninsula is evidently the promontory Ze-
phyrium, which, according to Pliny,k was added
to the land by the sea at Halicarnassus. When
this change in the outline of the coast took place
we are not informed, but it must have been at a
very early period. Scylax of Caryandal describes
the principal harbour at Halicarnassus as " sur-
rounding the island."
This expression is strictly accurate, for there
is good anchorage for caiques in the bay east
i KanSur, is the expression used by Arrian, i. 23.
t Nat. Hist. ii. 91.
1 Pei'iplus, § 98 :-—i:al aXXog \i/j>)v irspl n)v vfjrrov. This must
be tlie island mentioned in an inscription, C. I. No. 2,656, 1. 27.
uysipe.no ~pu v'i)aov.
T 2
looking down1 from the heights which he occupied,
lie saw the two citadels, Salmacis and the fortress
in the island, still occupied "by the Persians. It is
quite evident that he must have first secured his
position in the highest part of the city, taking
possession of the fort on the conical hill and the
rocky salient near the Mylasa gate, and that he
must have then descended to the shore.
The rocky peninsula, formerly an island, has
been already noticed (see ante, pp. 10, 38), and
will be more fully described in Mr. Pullan's account
of the Castle of St. Peter, which forms one of the
appendices to this work. Here stood a Greek
citadel, of which the walls may still be traced by
the beds cut for their foundations on the south
side of the Castle of St. Peter, and near the central
keep.
This peninsula is evidently the promontory Ze-
phyrium, which, according to Pliny,k was added
to the land by the sea at Halicarnassus. When
this change in the outline of the coast took place
we are not informed, but it must have been at a
very early period. Scylax of Caryandal describes
the principal harbour at Halicarnassus as " sur-
rounding the island."
This expression is strictly accurate, for there
is good anchorage for caiques in the bay east
i KanSur, is the expression used by Arrian, i. 23.
t Nat. Hist. ii. 91.
1 Pei'iplus, § 98 :-—i:al aXXog \i/j>)v irspl n)v vfjrrov. This must
be tlie island mentioned in an inscription, C. I. No. 2,656, 1. 27.
uysipe.no ~pu v'i)aov.
T 2