190 RECENT ELEVATION OF LAND. 



two miles inland, and its harbour has become a 

 fresh-water lake, from whence the waters have 

 a fall towards the sea. The position of the 

 buildings on the side of the ancient port in- 

 dicates that this change has been caused by 

 the rise of the land. 



The alluvial plains of Xanthus, Phineka, 

 Myra and Macri, have increased considerably in 

 thickness of soil, since the time when the cities 

 on those plains were flourishing. In this way 

 numerous remains of antiquity and works of art 

 are doubtless imbedded. An indication of the 

 amount of increase of the plain is seen at 

 Xanthus, where a tomb, cut on an isolated 

 rock by the river side, and which must have 

 been originally at some height above the stream, 

 has now only its pediment above water. 



In many mountain valleys of the Taurus are 

 great accumulations of unstratified earth, gravel, 

 and masses of rock, resembling the till of our 

 country. Many of these are of very recent 

 origin, being landslips caused by the earthquakes 

 which almost annually convulse this country. 

 We saw some which had occurred only two 

 years before, and in which the trees still re- 

 mained imbedded. The steep mountain sides, 



