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tain. Next comes the Promontory of Cragus\ and beyond 

 it a gulf ^, equal to the one that comes before it ; upon it are 

 Pinara', and Telmessus^, the frontier town of Lycia. 



Lycia formerly contained seventy towns, now it has but 

 thirty-six. Of these, the most celebrated, besides those 

 already mentioned, are Canas*, Candyba, so celebrated for 

 the ffinian Grove, Podalia, Choma, past which the river 

 -^desa flows, Cyaneae^, Ascandalis, Amelas, Noscopium, 

 Tlos^ and Telandrus^. It includes also in the interior the 

 district of Cabalia, the three cities of which are (Enianda, 

 Balbura^, and Bubon^". 



it Arsinoe, but it still remained better knovm by its old name. This 

 place was visited by St. Paul, who thence took sliip for Phoenicia. See 

 Acts xxi. 1. 



^ This was more properly the name 6f a mountain district of Lycia. 

 Strabo speaks of Cragus, a mountain with eight summits, and a city of 

 the same name. Beaufort tliinks that Yedy-Booroon, the Seven Capes, 

 a group of high and rugged mountains, appear to have been the ancient 

 Mount Cragus of Lycia. 



2 Probably the Gulf of Macri, equal in size to the Gulf of Satalia, 

 which is next to it. 



3 This place lay in the interior at the base of Cragus, and its ruins are 

 still to be seen on the east side of the range, about half-way between 

 Telmessus and the termination of the range on the south coast. 



* Its ruins are to be seen at Mei, or the modem port of Macri. 



5 Its site is unknown. That of Candyba has been ascertained to be a 

 place called Gendevar, east of the Xanthus, and a few miles from the coast. 

 Its rock-tombs are said to be beautifully executed. The CEnian grove or 

 forest, it has been suggested, may still be recognized in the extensive 

 pine forest that now covers the mountain above the city. The sites of 

 Podalia and Choma seem to be unknown. 



^ In some editions " Cyane." Leake says that this place was discovered 

 to the west of Andriaca by CockereU. It appears from Scott and Forbes' s 

 account of Lycia, that three sites have been found between port Tristorus 

 and the inland vaUey of Kassabar, wluch from the inscriptions appeared 

 anciently to have borne this name, Yarvoo, Ghiom-istan, and Toussa. 

 The former is the chief place and is covered with ruins of the Eoman and 

 middle-age construction. At Ghiouristan there are Lycian rock-tombs. 



7 Its ruins are to be seen near the modern Doover, in the interior of 

 Lycia, about two miles and a half east of the river Xanthus. Of the 

 three places previously mentioned the sites appear to be unknown. 



^ Mentioned by the geographer Stephanas as being in Caria. 



^ Its site is fixed at Katara, on both sides of the Katara Su, the most 

 northern branch oi the Xanthus. The ruins are very considerable, lying 

 on both sides of the stream. Balbm'a is a neuter plural. 



^° It lay to the west of Balbura, near a place now called Ebajik, on a 



