but how could he replace such stones as those? His reasoning was too simple and powerful for me to urge him further. I gave the list to the Pasha at Rhodes, who sent two men over to protect them, but only held himself responsible for the conduct of the men, not for the safety of the marbles. We are so accustomed to receive equivalents in insurance, that we feel no scruples in holding ourselves responsible for almost anything.

Early on the morning of the 3rd of March we were all on board the Beacon ship, and arrived at Rhodes on the 5th. A few hours sufficed for all we had to do with the authorities, and we sailed on for Malta. I received letters at Rhodes from the Trustees of the British Museum, very handsomely acknowledging my services in obtaining the firman from Constantinople, and sanctioning any expenses I might have incurred on that occasion.

On the 14th of March we arrived at Malta, bearing the Captain's report to the Admiral: had this been sent two months before, we might by this time have been there with all the stones on board, or, by remaining a month later, have in all probability found double the number of treasures.

I received every possible attention from the authorities at Malta. Admiral Sir Thomas Mason, commander-in-chief, Admiral Sir John Lewis, and Major Yule of the Engineers, almost daily called upon or corresponded with me in lazaretto, obtaining all the information I could give to forward a fresh expedition to bring away the cases. I was applied to for the accurate measurement of each stone, in order that the officers of Engineers should calculate the weight: the result of which was that the eighty-two cases together weighed 80 tons, the three largest stones weighing 2 tons 1 cwt. each.

Admiral Sir Edward Owen arrived to take the chief command on the 4th of April, and immediately requested an interview with Captain Graves and myself: when the Admiral

said to Captain Graves, "I understand that it is your wish to leave this duty and continue your survey;" the Captain replied," It is, Sir;" thus voluntarily giving up the expedition into the hands of others.

Having done all I could in instructing the officers about to be employed, I left Malta on the 6th of April for Marseilles in the French steam-packet. Before leaving I understood that the expedition would start in two or three days. I urged the necessity, in my letter to the Admiral, as well as verbally, that no time should be lost; as the season, from my experience of the climate, would be too hot, and as I feared if the expedition were there after the middle of May the waters from the melting snows would have ceased to fill the river, which would probably become too shallow for navigation. I regret to say that the Medea steam-ship, appointed for the service, did not leave Malta until the 28th of April, and then sailed to Athens, not arriving at Xanthus until the 13th of May, the time at which all the work should have been accomplished. It was the 8th of June before the party left the coast. At this season the Turks had put the valley under irrigation, and had themselves retired to their summer farms in the Yeeilassies of the mountains. Noxious evaporation and malaria were the consequence, and fever appeared among the seamen on board the Monarch at anchor off the coast.

The stone-sawyers taken from Malta to divide the heavy stones of the Horse Tomb had several weeks' work before them; it was impossible to allow the sailors to remain in the country, therefore all sailed away, bringing seventy-eight of the cases, and leaving the Horse Tomb for another season. The striking beauty of this monument will be the guarantee for its arriving where art is appreciated.

The seventy-eight cases were safely deposited at Malta by the end of June, and were brought to England in H.M. ship Cambridge in December.

I cannot close this account without adding the very flat

tering resolution of the Trustees of the British Museum, passed May 14th, soon after my arrival in England.

"May 14th, 1842.

"His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury in the Chair. [After ordering the repayment of the sums which I advanced] It was resolved:—

"That the Trustees desire to express their sense of Mr. Fellows's public spirit in voluntarily undertaking to lend to so distant an expedition the assistance of his local knowledge and personal co-operation; and that they have viewed with great satisfaction the decision and energy evinced by Mr. Fellows in proceeding from Smyrna to Constantinople and obtaining the necessary authority for the removal of the marbles, as well as his judicious directions at Xanthus, by which the most desirable of the valuable monuments of antiquity, formerly brought to light by him, together with several others of scarcely less interest now for the first time discovered and excavated, have been placed in safety, and, as the Trustees have every reason to hope, secured for the National Museum.

(Signed)

"J. FORSHALL, Secretary."