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INTRODUCTION. 



minor sites. The names of not fewer than 

 fifteen were identified by inscriptions found 

 among their ruins. Three or four, at most, of 

 these had been visited and described before, 

 but their names mistaken; so that for geographi- 

 cal purposes they were as good as new dis- 

 coveries. Among those of which no account 

 had been given to the world, and the positions of 

 which were desiderata in geography, were some 

 of the most important towns in Asia Minor. 

 One was as Cibyra, a vast and powerful city, the 

 chief of the Cibyratic Tetrapolis, and afterwards 

 of a convention of twenty-five towns. To deter- 

 mine with certainty the position of this city 

 was a point of no small consequence, as it had 

 played a prominent part in history, and is fre- 

 quently mentioned in the writings of ancient 

 authors. Termessus Major, another important 

 city examined during our tour, was one of the 

 most ancient towns of Asia Minor, equally in- 

 teresting for its connection with the early history 

 of the country, and for its later fame as a place 

 which held out successfully against Alexander 

 himself. Selge, visited by Mr. Daniell alone, 

 was another of the great Asiatic towns, of the 

 ruins of which there had been no account.'* 



* During the same year with ourselves; the cities named, 

 and several others described in this work, were visited by 



