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flows, Mount Masycites', the state of Andriaca^, Myra', tlie 

 towns of Aperrae'' and Antiphellos^, formerly called Ha- 

 bessus, and in a corner Phellos^, after which comes Pyrra, 

 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- 



1 The modem Akhtar Dagh. 



2 Now Andraki. This was the port of Myra, 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 

 xivii. 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. Paul 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 tliis city still to be seen, in part hewn out of the 

 soUd rock. 



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

 Bay, it is thought that Aperies is the proper name of this place, though 

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

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

 poses to be the same as the Simena mentioned above by Pliny. 



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

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

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



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

 north-west of AntipheUos, where he found the remains of a town ; but 

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

 above — -judging from Pliny's words. Modem geographers deem it more 

 consistent with his meaning to look for Phellos north of AntipheUos than 

 in any other direction, and the ruins at Tchookoorbye, north of Anti- 

 pheUos, on the spm* of a mountain called FeUerdagh, are thought to be 

 those of PheUos. 



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

 river of that name, now caUed 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 under Brutus. Among its most famous temples were those of 

 Sarpedon and of the Lycian ApoUo. The ruins now known by the name 

 of G-unik, have been explored by Sir C. FeUows and other travellers, 

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

 under the name of the Xantliian marbles. 



^ Its ruins stiU 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 seat of the worship of ApoUo, from whose son Patarus it was said 

 to have received its name. Ptolemy Philadelphus enlarged it, and caUed 



