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flows, Mount Masy cites', the state of Andriaca^, Myra^, the 

 towns of Aperrse* and Antiphellos*, formerly called Ha- 

 beasiis, and in a corner Phellos^ after which comes P}T:'ra, 

 and then the city of Xanthus', fifteen miles from the sea, 

 as also a river known by the same name. We then come 

 to Patara*, formerly Pataros, and Sidyma, situate on a moun- 



^ The modern Akhtar Dagh. 



2 Now Andx-aki. Tliis was the port of Myi'a, next mentioned. It stood 

 at the mouth of the river now known as the Andraki. Cramer observes 

 that it was here St. Paul was put on board the ship of Alexandria, Acts 

 xxvii. 5, 6. 



^ Still called Myra by the Greeks, but Dembre by the Turks, It was 

 built on a rock twenty stadia from the sea. St. Pavd touched here on his 

 voyage as a prisoner to Rome, and from the mention made of it in Acts 

 xxvii. 5, 6, it would appear to have been an important sea-port. There 

 are magnificent ruins of this city still to be seen, in part hewn out of the 

 sohd rock. 



From an inscription found by Cockerell at the head of the Hassac 

 Bay, it is thoiight that Aperlce is the proper name of tliis place, though 

 again there are coins of Gordian which give the name as Aperrce. It is 

 fixed by the Stadismus as sixty stadia west of Somena, which Leake sup- 

 poses to be the same as tlie Simena mentioned above by Phny. 



* Now called Antephelo or Andifilo, on the south coast of Lycia, at 

 the head of a bay. Its theatre is still complete, with the exception of 

 the proscenium. There are also other interesting remains of antiquity. 



^ Fellowes places the site of PheUos near a village called Saaret, west- 

 north-west of Antiphellos, where he fovmd the remains of a town ; but 

 Spratt considers this to mark the site of the Pyrra of Phny, mentioned 

 above — -judging from PHny's words. Modern geographers deem it more 

 consistent with liis meamng to look for Pliellos north of Antiphellos than 

 in any other du'ection, and the ruins at Tchookoorbye, north of Anti- 

 phellos, on the spur of a mountain called FeUerdagh, are thought to be 

 those of PheUos. 



' The most famous city of Lycia. It stood on the western bank of the 

 river of that name, now called the Echen Chai. It was twice besieged, 

 and on both occasions the inhabitants destroyed themselves with their 

 property, first by the Persians under Harpagus, and afterwards by the 

 Romans mider Brutus. Among its most famous temples were those of 

 Sarpedon and of the Lycian Apollo. The ruins now kno^vn by the name 

 of Gunikf have been explored by Sir C. Fellows and other travellers, 

 and a portion of its remains are now to be seen in the British Museum, 

 under the name of the Xanthian marbles. 



® Its ruins still bear the same name. It was a flourishing seaport, on 

 a promontory of the same name, sixty stadia east of the mouth of the 

 Xanthus. It was early colonized by the Dorians from Crete, and became 

 a chief scat of the worsliip of Apollo, from whose son Patarus it was said 

 to have received its name. Ptolemy Pliiladelphus enlarged it, and called 



