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 354 Journal of Philology. p. 349, note (d). Mr Newton (p. 181) seems to believe that the fragments of an Ionic edifice near the Pasha's house, " are those of the Mausoleum lying in situ" these doubtless are the same as what Mr Hamilton (p. 33) saw, and thus describes, "Near the Agha's Konak we copied a few imperfect inscriptions, and saw many blocks of marble, and broken columns, built into the walls of the houses." Mr Donaldson had previously thus noticed the same remains, "Nearer to the palace of the Pasha are many fragments of shafts of columns, of volutes, and other ornaments of a superb Ionic edifice, rivalling in taste, finish, and material, the finest edifices of Athenian art." Indeed Plate IV, Stuart's Athens, Vol. iv, represents a beautiful Ionic capital from that locality. I have in my former Essay (on Greek floral orna- ments, Trans. R. Soc. Lit. Vol. n. N. S. p. 186) made mention of the exquisitely sculptured honeysuckle flower from this capital, and I have drawn it at fig. 5 in my accompanying Plate. Mr Donaldson well observes that this capital is of the " most pure style, and of Parian marble :" in fact, worthy in every respect to adorn a temple dedicated to the Goddess of Beauty. So these ancient remains, I conceive, are most likely those of the Temple of Venus and Mercury, which was near the fountain of Salmacis : the position of which must have been adjacent, though a little more to the right or West. p. 349, note (e). Refer to Hamilton's Asia Minor, n. p. 32, where he calls it "a remarkable terrace or platform;" and thinks that it " may very probably have been the substruction of the Mausoleum." p. 349, note (/). Professor Boss places the Acropolis Salma- cis and the Temple of Mars upon the height immediately north of the theatre : but Col. Leake considers that they occupied the spot where the castle of St Peter now exists. (See p. 48, Trans. R. S. Lit. Vol. II. N. S.) So likewise Mr Morritt thought in 1795, for he says, "the old Acropolis stood where the castle now is." (MS. Journal in Clarke's Travels.) Halicarnassus had three Acro- polises, or in the words of Diod. Sic. (17, 23), aKp<mokri mXoSi KCKncrnTjufVT). There is considerable difficulty in assigning the posi- tions of these Acropolises, about which topographers do not agree. According to the learned Morritt, " the citadel and foun- tain of Salmacis on the western horn, and that on the island of Arconncsus, continued to resist the Macedonians after the Arx