46 FORTIFIED WALL. 



Xantlms flourished, was yet more wild and 

 barbarous than the land of the Xanthians is 

 now. 



March 3rd. — The chief object of our stay at 

 the ruins of Xanthus was the examination 

 of the long wall, discovered by Mr. Hoskyn 

 and Mr. Daniell, about four miles to the north 

 of the city. No opportunity having hitherto 

 occurred for its thorough examination, we quitted 

 the ruins this morning to accomplish it. Riding 

 for about a mile through the wild shrubbery on 

 the elevated flat to the north-east of the city, we 

 came to a Turkish burying-ground. Several 

 marble and granite columns and other architec- 

 tural fragments lay on the ground, forming head 

 and foot stones to the graves ; on one was an 

 inscription. The character of these fragments 

 does not favour the idea broached by Sir C. Fel- 

 lows, of this having been the site of a temple. 

 It was the opinion of Mr. Daniell, as well as 

 our own, that they were all brought from the 

 neighbouring ruins of Xanthus. There is a 

 mixture of both Doric and Corinthian frag- 

 ments, and no evidence of ancient foundations. 

 Riding on we came to the wall, which we found 

 abutting at one extremity against a cliff, forming 



