THE RUIN AT GELAMON. 



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or subsequent to the Christian era, and resem- 

 ble the tombs of the chief or capital city of 

 the three Cyaneai, viz., that of Yarvoo, But 

 there are here three Lycian rock-tombs, facing 

 the plain on the east side of the pass — one of 

 which has a Lycian and Greek inscription. It 

 is thus evident, that although this site may 

 have been with Toosa, both included in the 

 interest, and adopting the name of Cyanese 

 during the Roman age, they both also were 

 inhabited localities long previous, and may then 

 have been independent cities like Gendevar and 

 Phellus — and among the many merely mentioned 

 by the ancient authors, as belonging to Lycia 

 without reference to situation. On returning 

 to Kassabar we rode to the ruin we had passed 

 in the morning, near the village of Gelamon. 

 It is a building which appears to have been a 

 fortified or castellated habitation, once elegantly 

 and expensively constructed with cut blocks of 

 limestone: its form is quadrangular, and it is 

 divided into compartments, parts of the parti- 

 tions and exterior wall being still standing. 



March 20th. Appearing now to have ex- 

 hausted all the knowledge of the inhabitants 

 respecting ancient sites surrounding the val- 



