130 DOUBTS ABOUT OUR RELIGION. 



a quarter of an hour. As we had stood mute 

 spectators during its performance without joining 

 in the mummery of crossing ourselves, and kiss- 

 ing the saint, not a little disgusted at the care- 

 less and indifferent manner it was gabbled 

 through, and the haste in which the priest threw 

 off his vest before he had quite concluded his 

 benediction, he inquired of our servants if we 

 were Christians, somewhat doubting the fact 

 from our telling him we did not understand the 

 ceremonies and forms used by his church. 



March 2\st. We devote to-day to the exami- 

 nation of the ruins, and repair, after breakfasting, 

 to the group of rock-tombs a few yards south of 

 the theatre, where the face of the bold hill rising 

 above it is f studded with carved sepulchres wher- 

 ever the rock is of good texture. All of them are 

 elaborately chiselled. Several have angular pedi- 

 ments, bearing groups of figures in low relief, and 

 one or two are detached except at their bases, in 

 imitation of built habitations. The greater num- 

 ber are of that striking and elegant form peculiar 

 to Lycia, having square mullions and empanel- 

 led fronts ornamented with flat projecting ledges, 

 carved beneath in elegant imitation of rafters 

 of wood supporting a roof. The whole presents 



