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tion, part of which was copied by Sir C. Fellows 

 and the tomb itself figured in his first book of 

 travels. It is the only sarcophagus which, both 

 from its architecture and inscription, may be 

 ranked in date with the Rock Tombs. As the 

 procuring a complete copy of this inscription had 

 been strongly urged by Mr. Sharpe, it engaged 

 much of our time during our stay at Anti- 

 phellus, the letters being in several parts difficult 

 to decipher and smaller than usual. 



Hearing again of the ruins at Tchookoorbye 

 and finding they were only two hours distant, 

 we visited them twice during our stay at An- 

 tiphellus. The road to the site ascends from the 

 head of Port Vathy, a rocky zig-zag path, winding 

 up the bold face of the craggy mountain over- 

 hanging the harbour. In an hour we reached 

 a small plateau on the top of the ridge ; crossing 

 it, we came to the village at the foot of a 

 hill, a spur of the mountain intervening between 

 this little plain and the valley of Saaret. The 

 name of this place our guide said was Fellerdagh 

 — the resemblance of which to Phellus, and the 

 situation so near behind Antiphellus, gave us 

 hopes that we had now discovered the true situ- 

 ation of that city. 



