16 SITE OF LYRBE? 



there was a large city by the edge of the plain, 

 not above five or six hours distant, and long 

 before we should come to Karabunar. We 

 arrived at it an hour or two before sunset. 

 It looked a grand affair at a distance, but 

 turned out to be composed entirely of middle- 

 age ruins. It was close under the mountains, 

 and a paved road ascended from it, turning, 

 at the summit of the path, northward to Kara- 

 bunar, and west towards Stenez. These ruins 

 were evidently those met with by Koehler, 

 and referred by Colonel Leake to Termessus. 

 Here too is the site of Fellows 1 Pamphylian 

 tomb and broken Lion — in his first work. He 

 must have passed through Karabunar to come 

 from his Selge to this pass. His valuation 

 of the ruins is perfectly correct. They are 

 evidently those of an extensive church or 

 churches. I do not think it improbable that 

 this may have been Lyrbe. I could not find 

 a vestige of ancient masonry standing, except 

 the tombs by the side of the paved road, and 

 a few at the bottom : there are plenty of 

 slabs and broken pedestals scattered on the 

 plain, in a Turkish burying-ground. I need 

 not say that I could find no name ; but I 



