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 CAULFIELD. 395 arrived on the 90th of June following; and after a short stay, proceeded to Constantinople, visiting in their way, Smyrna, Tenedos, the Dardanelles, and the Troade, in all of which they inspected every thing interesting to classical curiosity. During his stay at Constantinople, Lord Charle- mont attained his twenty-first year, which he commemo- rated by the composition of an elegant Latin ode, ia imitation of Horace's "Ad Posthume." Lib ii. xiv. Eheu! Jugaces, Posthume, Posthume, It was addressed to his friend, Mr. Richard Marlay, afterwards Lord Bishop of Waterford, the learned and admired friend and companion of Burke, Reynolds, John- son, and Malone, and the maternal uncle of the Right Honourable Henry Grattan. In his observations on every thing curious in Constan- tinople, he was zealously aided by Doctor Mackenzie, many years the resident physician to the English embas- sador and British factory there, and highly esteemed by the Turks for his medical skill. From Constantinople, after a stay of little more than a month, the travellers proceeded to Egypt, visiting, in the course of their voyage, the Classic Isles of Lesbos, Chios, Micone, Delos, and Paros, from the last of which they sailed to Alexandria, and travelled thence to view every relique of antiquity worthy of curiosity in Egypt. On the 2end of October, 1749, they sailed from Alexandria, intend- ing to visit Cypros, in sight of which they arrived, but were foreed by contrary winds, after a voyage of seven days, to anchor at Rhodes. Whence they sailed for Athens, but were again driven by unfavourable gales, upon the rocky coast of Caria, now called Carimania; and on the morning of the 9th of November, they passed the pro- montory of Doris, on the south-east side of the Sinus Cera micus, now Gulph of Stanco: here they landed and visited the splendid ruins of the ancient theatre near it, then in high preservation; all of white marble, 190 feet broad by 150 in depth; and above the theatre stood the