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frontispiece to Sir C. Fellows's Lycia. We were 

 disappointed with it as a work of art.'* Half-way 

 up the hill are a number of rock-tombs, some 

 of them with Lycian inscriptions. Several are 

 in enormous blocks of limestone, which have 

 been torn from the parent rock by an earth- 

 quake, and hurled down the mountain since 

 the tombs were hewn, as is evident from the 

 position of the tombs at present, some of which 

 lie almost on their faces. In no instance 

 has the fracture passed through a tomb. This 

 probably arises from the sepulchres having been 

 cut in the most compact parts of the cliffs. 

 The ruins of the city are seated on the level 

 summit of a high mountain. A great street 

 bordered with temples and public buildings runs 

 down the centre. On the slope of the hill, 

 commanding a magnificent and far-extending 

 view of the plains of Makri, the ranges of 

 Massicytus, the high peaks of Cragus, and 

 of the sea almost as far as Rhodes, is the 

 theatre, not large, but in good preservation. 

 Below it are rows of tombs in form similar 

 to that of Herodotus of Pinara, and bearing 



* There is a cast of this bas-relief now in the British 

 Museum. 



