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The riches of Lycia as a field of discovery 

 had been first made known by Captain Beaufort, 

 the distinguished hydrographer to the Admiralty, 

 who surveyed the coast, then unexplored, in the 

 years 1811 and 1812, and published a most 

 valuable and masterly account of his researches 

 in ISIS/ 5 " Before his time Lycia was a blank 

 upon the map, and its coast-line unsettled, though 

 well described by ancient authors.f Telmessus 

 only had been examined and described, especially 



Professors Schonbrun and Loew, who have published the in- 

 scriptions they collected in Boeck's Corpus. Of almost all 

 these inscriptions we had also made copies, and of many more. 

 Upwards of two hundred Greek and thirty " Lycian " inscrip- 

 tions were copied during our journey, the greater part of which 

 had never been copied before. No " Lycian " inscription was 

 neglected, and most of those previously published by Sir 

 Charles Fellows were carefully collated and recopied. 



* " Karamania, or a Brief Description of the South coast of 

 Asia Minor, by Francis Beaufort, F.R.S., Captain of His 

 Majesty's ship Frederiksteen." 



f " It is remarkable that in Strabo, and in the anonymous 

 Periplus entitled the Stadiasmus of the Sea, a fragment of 

 which is preserved in the Madrid Library, we have a more 

 detailed description of this coast than of any other that has 

 been distinguished by Grecian civilization ; and thus at the 

 same time that history has preserved an abundance of infor- 

 mation concerning its ancient places, the survey of Captain 

 Beaufort furnishes us with a most correct representation of its 

 real topography." — Colonel Leake in his " Journal of a Tour 

 in Asia Minor, with Comparative Remarks on the ancient and 

 modern Geography of that country. London, 1824." 



