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cient inhabitants have been so entirely swept 

 out of the country, and replaced by people dif- 

 fering in manners, in religion, and language, 

 having no interest connected with the locality, 

 to induce them to respect the relics or names, 

 and keep alive the memory of the former posses- 

 sors of the soil. We procured a few coins from 

 the peasantry ; one had the letters KAND upon 

 it, a further confirmation of the site, and another 

 had the initials M A on the obverse. As these 

 letters occur on several coins found in Lycia, 

 they have been generally attributed to a city 

 called Massacytus ; but antiquarians are now in- 

 duced to consider them as common to the as- 

 semblage of cities situated on and around the 

 great mountain of Massacytus, which, from their 

 being in general more common and more widely 

 scattered than other coins of the country, appears 

 to us to be the most probable conclusion re- 

 specting them. Independent of its antiquarian 

 interest, the site of Candyba delighted us on 

 account of its geological features. In the scaglia 

 here we found well preserved fossils, mostly 

 corals ; and in the marls which abutted against 

 the acropolis rock, were numerous well preserved 

 fossils of tertiary origin, which showed that this 



