38 homer's mention of the lycians. 



of inducing others more capable of investigating 

 the subject, to give it a closer inquiry ; so as to 

 disprove or verify the views we at present en- 

 tertain. 



It will be necessary to preface our observations 

 with a brief sketch of the early history of the 

 country as transmitted to us by Homer and 

 Herodotus. 



From the Iliad little more can be learnt than 

 that the Lycians at the siege of Troy were a 

 warlike and powerful nation, affording throughout 

 the war distinguished services to the Trojans, 

 under their several leaders, Glaucus, Sarpedon, 

 and Pandarus. (Iliad, B. v. and xii.) 



Herodotus being from the neighbouring pro- 

 vince of Caria is more minute in the history of 

 the early inhabitants of Lycia, omitting nothing, 

 apparently traditional or otherwise, known in his 

 time respecting their origin. But respecting the 

 condition of the country in his own time his 

 narrative is unfortunately too brief ; for it was 

 then that the so-called Lycian rock -tombs, monu- 

 ments and the language upon them, were first 

 sculptured and inscribed according to the 

 opinion of the scholars who have investigated 

 the inscriptions. It is, in consequence, the 



