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ceived Sir C. Fellows on viewing them from 

 below, since he calls them Greek. Within the 

 fortress are several large cisterns and portions of 

 wall of both Hellenic and Cyclopsean work, show- 

 ing that it was also well fortified in earlier days. 

 The principal part of the town, of which this ap- 

 pears to have been merely the acropolis, was 

 situated below on the ground intervening be- 

 tween the two rivers. Attracted by some ruins 

 visible from the summit, we descended. These 

 we found were also of two ages, viz., rock-tombs 

 and marble fragments, indicative of the Greek, 

 but more numerous and scattered remains of 

 middle-age date, consisting of foundations of 

 walls, and a large Christian cathedral of early 

 Byzantine architecture, one of the most interest- 

 ing and picturesque, as well as best preserved 

 ruins in Lycia. This very beautiful building had 

 escaped Sir C. Fellows, who passed within two or 

 three hundred yards of it. It is a noble fabric, 

 and one which excited on examination a deep 

 interest. It is but little incommoded by rub- 

 bish and bushes, so that we were enabled to 

 place ourselves at once without difficulty under 

 the lofty dome in the centre or body of the 

 church, and survey its interior, where the noisy 



