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tified acropolis. Ernass is said to be more dis- 

 tant in the northern division of the plain. We 

 have therefore engaged a guide for visiting the 

 former to-morrow. 



March 15th. — Leaving Kassabar at 8, we passed 

 a water-mill kept by a Greek, near the out- 

 skirts of the village, and in an hour's riding 

 along the foot of the hills, or over hillocks of 

 clay and gravel, we began to ascend by a steep 

 road, traversing laminated marly beds, in which 

 we could detect no fossils. The side of the 

 mountain being steep, we did not see the village 

 of Gendevar, or the rock over it, until we were 

 close to its base. The fortress, or wall crowning 

 it, we were disappointed to perceive was of 

 middle-age construction ; but we had better 

 hopes that the site would prove of more im- 

 portance than these walls seemed to indicate 

 from the appearance of three or four well-cut 

 Lycian rock-tombs, excavated in the face of 

 some detached pieces of limestone, seemingly 

 torn away and rolled from the rock behind 

 them, which lay on the small terraces adjoining 

 the cottages. Giving but a hasty look at them 

 now, we proceeded to the top of the rock which 

 rises about eighty or a hundred feet above the 



