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 350 Journal of Philology. could again survey, as a glance at the plan makes it quite plain, from his palace on the right of the great harbour, the market (forum or agora) and the whole course of the city walls, but on the left could watch over the workman in his arsenal. Concerning the gates, which appear in the narrative of the siege of the city, the gate of Mylasa and that of Myndus have been already before determined; the Tripylon* is either the same with the last, or it must have been placed in the hollow between the two Acropolises behind the Mausoleum. But the last is improbable, because here is no vestige of a gate, and because moreover in such case Arrian would scarcely have failed in mentioning the neighbouring monument. That West gate of Myndus appears throughout to have been the principal gate. It is probable that on the South-east side of the city there was a third or fourth gate, which led to Ceramus. With my placing of the Mausoleum likewise the remarkable account of its last destruction in the year 1522, by the knights (of St John), very well coincides (especially with the words: u certain steps of white marble that were raised in the form of a stylobate in the midst of a plain near the port, where was formerly the Grand Place (Agora) of Halicarnassus"), which I have therefore added as an appendix to this letter. APPENDIX. The destruction of the Mausoleum by the Knights of St John. I wish, since the occasion is so opportune, to gratify pos- terity in a matter, which has not yet been published, and briefly to describe how, when, and by whom, this admirable work (the Mausoleum) was pulled down, and destroyed. From the decline of the Roman Empire, when, by the incursions of the Mahomet- ans and Persians, so many powerful, rich, and populous towns were ravaged and destroyed, the ancient and superb city of 1 ;hk1 4. l'lnstitut Royal de France, Classe d'his- t Extract from Claude Guichard, toire. Tom. n. Paris. 1815, pp. 576 ' Kwiu'railles et diverges manieres d'en- 80. The narrator is Dalechamps, who sevelir," &c, Lyon. 1581. liv. 3. ch. 5. drew up this account from the oralcom- pp. 379 381. I have borrowed this munication of an eye-witness, the chwi- extract from a treatise by Sainte Croix, lier de la Tourrette. "on the Chronology of the Monarchs of
 * Td Tplirvoi>, Arrian, Anab. I. 22, Caria," in Histoire et Me*moircs de