52 FORNAS. 



water finding its own level was known to the 

 ancients.* 



Fornas is the winter residence of the Agha 

 of the district, extending to Koonik, over the 

 kiar of which village he has authority. As it 

 is situated on a point of the coast-route where 

 the road begins to be difficult and rocky, it 

 derives advantages from the occasional travellers 

 who halt there. It possesses what are not com- 

 mon in this thinly inhabited country, a water- 

 mill, baker, shoe-maker, blacksmith, and weekly 

 bazaar. Our surigees having taken in a supply of 

 nails and horse-shoes here, we proceeded for Ba- 

 zeer-yan Keui. Having ascended to the summit 

 of the ridge over the north-east corner of the 

 gloomy bay of Kalamaki, one hour from Fornas, 

 we crossed some massive foundations apparently 

 belonging to the aqueduct. In another hour we 

 reached the little village of Bazeer-yan, situated 

 on a rocky eminence amidst some three or four 

 small cultivated patches on the mountain side. It 

 overlooks this bay, which is encircled by an iron- 

 bound abrupt shore. This village, like most 

 of the others on the arid limestone district 

 bounding the south part of Lycia by the sea- 

 * Mr. Hamilton mentions a similar case. 



