February xxi.
In an hard road betwixt barren hills we travel this day towards Jerdáck, a village which is the scale for passing the Hellespont, seated within half an hour of the antient Lampsacus. This road led us within four hours to the shore of the Propontis, along which we proceed four hours farther to our conáck, where the sea contracts it self into that strait chanel, betwixt Lampsacus and Callipolis. Here we find a large kane, in which are about twelve antient marble pillars, each of one fair intire stone, some round, others chanel’d, and of various orders; all which I conclude to have been undoubted reliques of the antient Lampsacus. In the yard of the mosque at Jerdáck I took the two following Greek inscriptions
ΑΓΑΘΗ ΤΥΧΗ
ΤΙ. ΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΝ ΦΛΩΡΟΝ ΠΥΚΤΗΝ ΝΕΙΚΗΣΑΝΤΑ ΕΝΔΟΞΩΣ
ΠΑΙΔΩΝ ΑΓΩΝΑ ΤΩΝ ΜΕΓΑΛΩΝ ΤΥΧΕΙΩΝ ΑΓΩΝΟΘΕΤΟΥΝ-
ΤΟΣ Γ. ΙΟΥΛ. ΕΛΕΩΝΕΩΣ ΥΠΟ ΠΑΙΔΟΤΡΙΒΗΝ ΚΛΑΥΔ.
ΚΥΡΟΣ ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΟΥ ΤΗΝ ΤΑΦΗΝ ΚΑΙ ΤΟΝ ΕΝΑΓΙΣΜΟΝ
ΤΩ ΠΑΤΡΙ ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΩ ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΟΥ