14 THE CITY. 



Fellows remained at Xanthus, deeply interested 

 in the operations conducted under his eye among 

 his favourite ruins, in company with Mr. Free- 

 land, the first-lieutenant of the Beacon, who had 

 been appointed by Captain Graves to command 

 and direct the seamen and marines on shore, 

 and Mr. Harvey, the assistant surgeon of the 

 ship. 



The site of Xanthus, though beautiful, is not 

 imposing. The hill on which it stands rises 

 abruptly from a level plain, in some places marshy 

 and alluvial. The rapid torrent of the river 

 rushes along the base of the steep precipices 

 of a lower acropolis, at the back of which are 

 the theatre, and several of the more remarkable 

 monuments, especially the square columnar tomb 

 which bore the bas-reliefs descriptive of the 

 story of the daughters of Pandarus, now in the 

 British Museum, and that on which is the long- 

 est Lycian inscription known. Above them rises 

 a second rocky eminence, the upper acropolis, 

 the summit of which is mostly occupied by the 

 ruins of an early Christian monastery. On the 

 south-western slope of the city are several re- 

 markable sarcophagi and other tombs, including 

 the tomb of Payara, figured in the frontispiece 



