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Corycos, there being a town\ port, and cavc"-^ all of the same 

 name. Passing these, we come to the river Calycadnus^, 

 the Promontory of Sarpedon*, the towns of Hulmoe* and 

 Myle, and the Promontory and town of Venus^, at a short 

 distance from the island of Cyprus. On the mainland there 

 are the toAMis of Myanda, Anemurium^, and Coracesium*, 

 and the river Melas^, the ancient boundary of Cilicia. In 

 the interior the places more especially worthy of mention 

 are Anazarbus^", now called Ca?sarca, Augusta, Castabala^\ 

 Epiphania^-, formerly called OEniandos, Eleusa'^, Iconium^^, 



^ Its ruins are supposed to be those seen by Leake near the island of 

 Ci'ambusa. Here the walls of an ancient city may still be traced, and a 

 mole of unhewn rocks projects from one angle of the fortress about 100 

 yards across the bay. 



2 Strabo describes this cave as a vast hollow of circular form, sur- 

 rounded by a margin of rock on all sides of considerable height ; on 

 descending it, the ground was found full of shrubs, both evergi-eens and 

 cultivated, and in some parts the best satfron was gro■w^l. He also says 

 tliat there was a cave wliich contained a large spring, from which arose a 

 river of clear water which immediately afterwards sank into the earth 

 and flowed miderground into the sea. It was called the Bitter Water. 

 This cave, so famed in ancient times, does not appear to have been 

 examined by any modern traveller. It was said to have been the bed of 

 the giant Typhon or Typhoeus. ^ Now known as the Ghiuk-Su. 



* Supposed to be the same as the modem Lessan-el-Kahpeh. 



* Or Holmi, on the coast of Cilicia Tracheia, a little to the south-west 

 of Seleucia. Leake thinks that the modern town of Aghaliman occupies 

 the site of Holmce. 



^ Probably the same place as the Aplirodisias mentioned by Livy, Dio- 

 dorus Siculus, and Ptolemy. 



7 On the headland now called Cape Anemour, the most southerly part 

 of Asia Minor. Beaufort discovered on the point indications of a con- 

 siderable ancient town. 



8 Its sita is now called Alaya or Alanieh. This spot was Strabo's 

 boundary-line between Pamphylia and Cilicia. Some sliglit remains of the 

 ancient town were seen here by Beaufort, but no inscriptions were found. 



3 Identified by Beaufort witli the modem Manaugat-Su. 

 '0 So called, either from an adjacent mountain of that name, or its 



founder, Anazarbus. Its later name was Cocsarea ad Ana/.arhum. lis site is 

 called Anawasy or Amnasy, and is said to display considerable reinaiTis of 

 the ancient town. Of Augusta notliing is known": Ptolemy places it in a 

 district called Bi'yehce. 



^^ Identified by Ainsworth with the ruins seen at Kara Kaya in Cilicia. 



^2 Pompey settled some of the Cilieian pirates here aftt-r his defeat of 

 them. It was thirty miles east of Anazarbus, but its site does not appear 

 to have been identiified. ^^ An island oil' the shore of Cihcia, also 

 called Sebaste. ^* Seme of the MSS. read " Riconiiuu " here. 



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