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the upper part of the ruins, presented a short 

 illegible inscription. Failing to find any clue 

 to the name of the city from these monuments, 

 we descended into a ravine on the north side 

 of it, where several well preserved rock-tombs 

 of the panelled sort, were cut in the face of 

 the hill opposite. The examination of these 

 also gave us no happier result, as none of them 

 were inscribed. At the mouth of the ravine is 

 an obelisk, similar in shape to the inscribed one 

 at Xanthus, standing on the platform of a vaulted 

 building, which is constructed of huge blocks 

 of limestone. The roof of the vault is flat, 

 of the most ancient and simple construction, 

 being formed of large blocks placed transverse- 

 ly across from the sides of the underground 

 passages. The obelisk . is an uninscribed one, 

 and as the platform appears never to have sup- 

 ported any other building, it is probable that 

 the obelisk and the vaulted substructure are 

 of the same date, and connected with the mo- 

 tive of their erection. Having thus failed in 

 finding the name of the city engraven on any 

 of its monuments, it is left to conjecture. From 

 a passage in Pliny, the only author who has 

 mentioned the city, we are inclined to suppose 



