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348 Journal of Philology. By adopting this explanation, it is hoped that Aristotle may not only be reconciled with himself, but (which under the ordinary interpretation is by no means easy) made to talk something like common sense. H. L. M. VI. On the Topography of Halicarnassus, with Guichard and Dalechamp's account of the final destruction of the Mausoleum, by Professor Ludwig Ross *, translated with notes by John Hogg, M.A., F.RS. &c. Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society of Literature. The transportation of the slabs of the Frieze from the Mausoleum to London has invited many enquiries concerning the Topography of Halicarnassus ( a ), which induce me also to add something to the preceding extracts from my diary, and a plan of the locality t. In the work of Mr Charles Newton( b ), which Herr Gerhard has made known in Germany by an extract, and of which men- tion has been made before, it has again been shown what a fruitless undertaking it is and leading to palpable mistakes without an actual survey of the localities, and a knowledge of the situation of the ground after an ever so carefully executed plan to indulge in topographical enquiries and to set up hypotlu Mr Newton has by a gross error placed the Palace of Mau- solus to the West, the fountain Salmacis to the East, of the outer harbour, and both far without the walls of the ancient fit y,

  • " Iteisen nach Kos, Halikarnassos, Hmrl; 1S3S ; from which also Newton's

Rhodns, und der fnad Qjpem, voti plan in the "Archaol. Zeitung," von Luthr'nj /,W," Halle. 1S52, pp. 39 41. Gerhard, No. 12. Dec. 1847. Tab. XII. t From tlir Ragtisfc ( hart, No. has been reduced. [Prof. Bow's plan on 1606 ; Boudroum (Halicarnassus) sur- a reduced scale will be found in Smith's veyed by Lieuta. Th. Graves, ami -S'. Dictionary 0/ Geogrqpkjf, 1. 10*7.]