28 THE MONUMENTS. 



tails knotted at the end, — also in their larger 

 size in proportion to the men. The horses on 

 monuments bearing Lycian inscriptions had usu- 

 ally this character. We had to regret the down- 

 fall of the tomb of Payara, (or " winged-chariot 

 tomb,") as the most beautiful of the Xanthian 

 monuments, feeling that if it could not be trans- 

 ported without mutilation to England, it had 

 been better left where it stood, the ornament of 

 the fallen city, and an object of pilgrimage to the 

 Oriental traveller. Its remains can convey no 

 idea of the original elegance of this splendid 

 sepulchre. 



The monuments of Xanthus are mostly carved 

 out of the scaglia or cream-coloured Apennine 

 limestone, on which the city stands, and through 

 a ravine in which the river flows beneath the 

 acropolis. The bas reliefs of the Harpy Tomb, 

 and a great part of the friezes of the temple, now 

 in the British Museum, are carved on blocks 

 of crystalline white marble, apparently, judging 

 from the grain, brought from the quarries at 

 Paros. In the walls are some blocks of the 

 tertiary limestone capping the marls which fill 

 the valley above the city, and containing charac- 

 teristic fossils. This tertiary appears close to 



