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348 HISTORY OF CNIDUS. '
stone, and, as its foundations have been laid in
nearly 100 feet of water, must have been a work of
immense labour. The other mole, having been much
exposed to the swell from the south-west, is not
visible above water. The smaller harbour opens to
the north-west, and is nearly closed by a broad quay
jutting out from the mainland.
This is evidently the port described by Strabod
as "Ki(M\v x\si<rr6s, the narrow mouth of which must
have been defended in antiquity by a chain. To
the north-east these harbours are shut in by the
mainland, which rises by a gradual slope to the
foot of a steep ridge of limestone, which in one
place attains to the height of 933' above the
level of the sea. (See Plate ML) The slope of
the mainland confronts the slope of the penin-
sula on the opposite side of the harbour, forming,
as it were, its natural counterpart; and it was
on these two opposite slopes that the ancient
city was built, rising on a succession of artificial
terraces from the water's edge.0 It is natural to
suppose that here, as at Halicarnassus, the penin-
sula, being more easily defensible, was first occu-
pied, and that the settlers gradually extended their
city over the opposite part of the mainland. The
convenience of Cnidus as a harbour of refuge
makes it net improbable that the Phoenicians had a
4 xiv. p. G5G.
0 Strabo, xiv. p. C5G :—irpOKSlTCU ot j'i/croc i-raaraSioc ttwc -i/j'
wtp/jUE-por, ui//j;A//, 6earpo£(0)y£, avvaitTOfXEVi) ywf.iaaL 7T(joc "'}»' tfirsipov
Kal Trotovaa ci—oXtv toottov Tii'hri))' K-vioov' 7roXv yap nhrrJQ fxepog oiKti
rt)v viiauv, aKtira^ovaav afu/wTipovc rove \i[ieva£. Cf. Pausai). V. 24, 7.
stone, and, as its foundations have been laid in
nearly 100 feet of water, must have been a work of
immense labour. The other mole, having been much
exposed to the swell from the south-west, is not
visible above water. The smaller harbour opens to
the north-west, and is nearly closed by a broad quay
jutting out from the mainland.
This is evidently the port described by Strabod
as "Ki(M\v x\si<rr6s, the narrow mouth of which must
have been defended in antiquity by a chain. To
the north-east these harbours are shut in by the
mainland, which rises by a gradual slope to the
foot of a steep ridge of limestone, which in one
place attains to the height of 933' above the
level of the sea. (See Plate ML) The slope of
the mainland confronts the slope of the penin-
sula on the opposite side of the harbour, forming,
as it were, its natural counterpart; and it was
on these two opposite slopes that the ancient
city was built, rising on a succession of artificial
terraces from the water's edge.0 It is natural to
suppose that here, as at Halicarnassus, the penin-
sula, being more easily defensible, was first occu-
pied, and that the settlers gradually extended their
city over the opposite part of the mainland. The
convenience of Cnidus as a harbour of refuge
makes it net improbable that the Phoenicians had a
4 xiv. p. G5G.
0 Strabo, xiv. p. C5G :—irpOKSlTCU ot j'i/croc i-raaraSioc ttwc -i/j'
wtp/jUE-por, ui//j;A//, 6earpo£(0)y£, avvaitTOfXEVi) ywf.iaaL 7T(joc "'}»' tfirsipov
Kal Trotovaa ci—oXtv toottov Tii'hri))' K-vioov' 7roXv yap nhrrJQ fxepog oiKti
rt)v viiauv, aKtira^ovaav afu/wTipovc rove \i[ieva£. Cf. Pausai). V. 24, 7.