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TOOSA. 



pointed out to us by the young Turk from the 

 acropolis of Gendevar, as Toosa. Our guide, 

 however, led us off to the left, and in half an 

 hour we unexpectedly found ourselves in sight 

 of other ruins and tombs, on an eminence close 

 above our path, which, to our surprise, he pro- 

 nounced to be the Toosa we were in search of ; 

 the name of the other being Yarvoo. Leaving 

 our horses to graze near a solitary peasant's 

 cottage, we proceeded with our guide to some 

 few sarcophagi visible in the thicket without 

 the walls. The first we came to was a fallen 

 one, bearing a Lycian inscription, one of the 

 few sarcophagi which are found in the country 

 inscribed with these characters. We examined 

 several others adjoining, without success ; but at 

 length made our way to one standing on the 

 brow of a hill at some distance to the north- 

 east of the ruins. This had a Greek inscrip- 

 tion, sufficiently legible to show that it was the 

 tomb of a native of Cyanese. This led us at 

 the time to believe that we had found the 

 true site of Cyanese, although evidently in a 

 very different position from the ruins ascribed 

 to that city by Mr. Cockerell, and discovered by 

 him in 1813, distant two hours from the sea, 



