18 SIDYMA. 



Mount Cragus. We turned off the road up a 

 valley penetrating the mountains, and separating 

 Cragus from Anticragus, its highest part being 

 the cliff towering over the sea among the Seven 

 Capes. The scenery of this valley is fine. Half 

 way up is a cistern roofed with square blocks 

 of tertiary marine conglomerate, exactly similar 

 to that found at Rhodes, from which the masses 

 might have been transported. Quartering for 

 the night in the hut of a very old peasant, 

 who, immediately on our arrival, brought us 

 milk, honey, bread and wood, the next morn- 

 ing we ascended the mountain side, to examine 

 the site of Sidyma, which, however, torrents 

 of rain prevented our doing further than visit- 

 ing some of the principal tombs. The ruins 

 stand on a wooded elevated plain, with high 

 peaks rising over them and the great valley, 

 up which we travelled two days before, yawning 

 beneath. The tombs are in very fine preserva- 

 tion, and there are numerous inscriptions. The 

 architecture which we saw during this hurried 

 visit appeared to be of much later date than 

 the usual architecture of Lycian towns. We 

 deferred a closer examination of Sidyma to a 

 future visit. 



