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APPENDIX I. 



It is remarkable that these two letters should 

 be found in one inscription at Xanthus, and not 

 on any other of the numerous monuments of 

 which we have the records before us ; and three 

 hypotheses present themselves in explanation of 

 this extraordinary fact : — 1st, that these two 

 letters are foreign to the language, and only 

 used in the names of foreign towns and persons; 

 2nd, that the Xanthus inscription is in the dia- 

 lect of a different tribe from the other inscrip- 

 tions; 3rd, that it is of a different date from the 

 other inscriptions, and that the language changed 

 somewhat in the interval. 



The first conjecture is negatived, as regards 

 one of the letters, by its occurrence on coins of 

 the true Lycian type: and it thus becomes im- 

 probable of the other letter. The second sup- 

 position is improbable, because this obelisk is 

 in the same town as many other inscriptions, 

 and it contains many words which are found 

 in the other inscriptions. The last seems the 

 most probable explanation. We know that 

 Greek civilization was gradually making way 

 in Asia Minor before the Macedonian conquest, 

 and Sir C. Fellows's researches show us that 

 Greek art gradually drove the Asiatic style of 



