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banks of the river, we were frequently hailed 

 with the good wishes of the simple and honest 

 peasants who recognised our party. 



To avoid the dykes and fences which intersect 

 the plain, we were obliged to ride by the river 

 side for two or three miles before we could cross 

 it to Fornas. Between Xanthus and the hills 

 by Patara, there is a great marsh crossed by a 

 paved causeway, and a bridge of a single arch, 

 through which a dark and apparently deep stream 

 flows slowly towards the sea. The causeway ter- 

 minates against rocky hills, along the sides of 

 which the road leads to Fornas, a small village 

 of about twenty houses, built upon the plain. 

 On the hills above is seen the aqueduct which 

 brought the water for the supply of Patara. 

 Over the Bay of Kalamaki this aqueduct has to 

 cross a ravine or pass, where it takes the form 

 of a great wall of Cyclopsean architecture, per- 

 forated by a rude archway. On the summit 

 of this wall the watercourse is covered in, and 

 the level of it is lower than that of the parts 

 of the aqueduct on the hills on each side. 

 Thus we see that at the time of the erection 

 of this aqueduct, the architecture of which 

 has the aspect of great antiquity, the fact of 



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