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Rh On the edge of the table-land may be seen some slight remains of the Hellenic fortification which occupied this site, and which was called Ochyi'oma, or "the strong place," and on the north side, about two-thirds of the way up the lines, terrace walls may be traced, though much concealed by fig-trees. On this side, under a walnut- tree at a fountain, are some fragments of Ionic columns in sandstone, $2 1⁄2$ feet in diameter. Here I obtained a marble lion's head from a cornice fairly sculptured.$123$ Ialysos was one of the three ancient cities of which the pohtical importance was destroyed by the founding of Rhodes B.C. 408. Strabo describes it as a mere or village in his time; its distance from Rhodes he reckons at 80 stadia, which would be rather more than nine English miles. The distance from Trianda to Neomaras is not more than five. We must look, therefore, for lalysos to the west of Phileremo.

The Chevaher Hedenborg, a Swedish savant resi- dent at Rhodes, possesses a fine amphora, with black figures on a red ground, which, as he informs me, was found in a tomb near Phileremo ; and between that hill and Maritza, at the distance of one hour from the latter place, is a mound called Catzechi, on which was discovered the top of a Greek marlile stelé, sculptured with a rich floral ornament like those found at Athens.$124$ The mound seems artificial, and the fields round it were strewn with pottery. The stelé was found on its eastern side.

This place lies south of Kremastò, close to which village, according to M. Guérin, architectural marbles,