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which record the name of the city, and the in- 

 scriptions upon which have been copied by Mr. 

 Cockerell ; that of Cyana, or the city rwv 

 KYANEITQN, at the head of Port Tristomo, as 

 the inner part of the bay behind the island of 

 Kakava is now called ; and that of Aperlse, 

 or the city r£v AI1EPAEITQN at the head of 

 Assar Bay. In our copies of Pliny, the former 

 is written Cyane ; in Hierocles and the Notitise 

 Episcopatuum, it is Cyanese. The Stadiasmus 

 has omitted it, probably because it is at a con- 

 siderable distance from the sea." — Leake, Asia 

 Minor, p. 188, in the notes to the fifth chapter. 



On the high table-land between Port Tristomo 

 and the inland valley of Kassabar we found 

 three ancient sites, which, from the inscriptions 

 copied at each, appeared to be severally (or per- 

 haps collectively) styled Cyanese. The site visited 

 by Mr. Cockerell was probably either the largest 

 and most important of these cities, that at 

 Yarvoo, or the seaport of that city. At the 

 ruins of the two other ancient towns of the 

 same name, we found Lycian inscriptions as 

 well as Greek; at Yarvoo, Greek only, and 

 those of Roman times. The following inscrip- 

 tions are selected from each of the localities : — 



