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XX.—AMONG THE 艷EAN ISLANDS.
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OUR sail all day among the 苂ean islands was surpassingly lovely; our course was constantly changing to wind among them; their beautiful outlines and the soft atmosphere that enwrapped them disposed us to regard them in the light of Homeric history, and we did not struggle against the illusion. They are all treeless, and for the most part have scant1 traces of vegetation, except a thin green grass which seems rather a color than a substance. Here are the little islands of Chalce and Syme, once seats of Grecian culture, now the abode2 of a few thousand sponge-fishers. We pass Telos, and Nisyros, which was once ruled by Queen Artemisia, and had its share in the fortunes of the wars of Athens and Sparta. It is a small round mass of rock, but it rises twenty-two hundred feet out of the sea, and its volcanic3 soil is favorable to the grape. Opposite is the site of the ruins of Cnidus, a Dorian city of great renown4, and famous for its shrine5 of Venus, and her statue by Praxiteles. We get an idea of the indentation of this coast of Asia Minor6 (and its consequent accessibility to early settlement and civilization) from the fact that Cnidus is situated7 on a very narrow peninsula ninety miles long.
Kos is celebrated8 not only for its size, loveliness, and fertility, but as the birthplace of Apelles and of Hippocrates; the inhabitants still venerate9 an enormous plane-tree under which the good physician is said to have dispensed10 his knowledge of healing. The city of Kos is on a fine plain, which gradually slopes from the mountain to the sea and is well covered with trees. The attractive town lies
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