10 MR. DANIELL'S SEARCH FOR OLBIA. 



before he resolved to resume his excursions, 

 and take the field at the hottest and most 

 unhealthy season of the year. He had always 

 dissented from our view of the position of Olbia ; 

 and, as at Rhodes we had not been able to con- 

 sult the necessary works of reference, the argu- 

 ments confirming our opinion, which have been 

 set forth in a previous chapter, were not accessi- 

 ble to him. Had they been, we feel sure he 

 would have placed Olbia, as we have done, in the 

 immediate neighbourhood of Adalia; a position 

 which his own researches go far to confirm. For 

 if Olbia was near the sea, as there can be little 

 doubt it was, judging from the accounts of the 

 ancient authors who mention it, and was not at 

 the site where we have fixed it, nor at Adalia 

 itself, it must have been somewhere on the 

 coast between that site and Cape Avova, close 

 to Phaselis, where its territory began. " Near 

 Cape Avova," writes Mr. Daniell in his last 

 letter, of which w r e shall have to speak here- 

 after, " where there is not a vestige of any 

 except middle-aged ruins, it is perfectly clear 

 that there could not have been so great a 

 fortress : " nor did he find any traces of such 

 between that cape and the Pamphylian plain, 



