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• HISTORY OF CNIDUS. 347
rock, vising abruptly from a low isthmus, by
which it is now united to the western extremity of
tbe peninsula lying between the gulfs of Syme
and Ceramus. This rock extends for about 160
yards, from N.E. to S.W., lying nearly parallel
with the mainland. Projecting far beyond the
adjacent coast of Asia Minor, this bold headland,
now called Oape Crio, forms a well-known sea-mark
to the navigators of the Archipelago, and in bad
weather the small craft which ply the coasting
trade find great difficulty in doubling it. Hence,
from the earliest period of Phoenician and Hellenic
navigation, mariners must have been compelled, in
stormy seasons, to take refuge behind the headland,
which, offering to the sea outside a line of sheer
precipices, descends on its inner or northern side,
by a gradual slope, doAvn to the still water lying
on each side of the isthmus."
The natural shelter thus afforded was converted
by the Greeks into two real harbours by artificial
moles. On reference to the plan of Cnidus, Plate L.,
it will be seen that the largest of the two har-
bours was anciently shut in from the S.E. by two
transverse moles running nearly at right angles to
the peninsula, one of which, as will be seen by the
view, Plate LI., is still nearly perfect.
This mole is constructed of enormous blocks of
generally. The question whether the name Triopium was applied
to the island only, or to part of the mainland adjoining it, will
he considered iu the following chapter.
0 In form, this rock is not unlike a wedge placed horizontally,
as may be seen by the view of it taken from the Lion tomb.
Plate LXVII.
2 A 2
rock, vising abruptly from a low isthmus, by
which it is now united to the western extremity of
tbe peninsula lying between the gulfs of Syme
and Ceramus. This rock extends for about 160
yards, from N.E. to S.W., lying nearly parallel
with the mainland. Projecting far beyond the
adjacent coast of Asia Minor, this bold headland,
now called Oape Crio, forms a well-known sea-mark
to the navigators of the Archipelago, and in bad
weather the small craft which ply the coasting
trade find great difficulty in doubling it. Hence,
from the earliest period of Phoenician and Hellenic
navigation, mariners must have been compelled, in
stormy seasons, to take refuge behind the headland,
which, offering to the sea outside a line of sheer
precipices, descends on its inner or northern side,
by a gradual slope, doAvn to the still water lying
on each side of the isthmus."
The natural shelter thus afforded was converted
by the Greeks into two real harbours by artificial
moles. On reference to the plan of Cnidus, Plate L.,
it will be seen that the largest of the two har-
bours was anciently shut in from the S.E. by two
transverse moles running nearly at right angles to
the peninsula, one of which, as will be seen by the
view, Plate LI., is still nearly perfect.
This mole is constructed of enormous blocks of
generally. The question whether the name Triopium was applied
to the island only, or to part of the mainland adjoining it, will
he considered iu the following chapter.
0 In form, this rock is not unlike a wedge placed horizontally,
as may be seen by the view of it taken from the Lion tomb.
Plate LXVII.
2 A 2