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has become public, that the inscriptions found in 

 such numbers on the monuments of Lycia (and 

 as it would seem in no other country, at least of 

 Asia Minor,) were not written in the language 

 of the Lycian people, but of their conquerors, I 

 shall now proceed to state on what grounds I 

 came to that conclusion during my passage 

 through the country in which those inscriptions 

 were found. We have the remains of three 

 distinct classes of ancient workmanship, which it 

 is impossible to separate from each other with 

 regard to their age and their origin : The tombs, 

 to which Mr. Fellows has unhappily given the 

 title of Elizabethan (those extremely simple imi- 

 tations of wood-built cottages, with rectangular 

 mullions, and raftered roofs), the coins usually de- 

 signated as triquetras, and the inscriptions them- 

 selves. Finding the language inscribed on no 

 other coins (with one or two remarkable and 

 unaccountable exceptions) than on those with 

 the triquetra, certainly on none earlier ; find- 

 ing it on no tombs of an earlier date than the 

 raftered tombs in question, and on others of vir- 

 tually the same character, though differing in 

 form, such as the tomb of Payara, at Xanthus, 

 and the great tomb at Antiphellus, we cannot 



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