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Rh Tollis Pecca Mun Mise No. Those issued by L’Isle Adam bore his head with the words F. Phus De Lile-Adam, M. Hosplis Hieri M.; on the reverse his arms, with the motto Da Mihi Virtutem Contra Hostes Tuos.

The measures of length, capacity, and weight were probably the same as were at the time used throughout the Levant, and these were Greek.

Such was the state of the island of Rhodes during the last years of the Order’s sway. From that time its decadence has been steady and continued. Its natural beauties still remain, but all that depended on the energy of man has gradually fallen into decay. Rhodes has partaken of the blight which seems to fall on everything subjected to Ottoman rule, and lives on now in the memory of the past.