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tered over the plain, and a small fortress stood 

 on an eminence at the opposite extremity. 

 Riding directly towards the latter, we passed an 

 Urook village, and then proceeded to examine 

 the fortress, which is just one hour and a half 

 distant from the monastery. The plain on which 

 Sura stands is elevated about 400 feet above the 

 sea, and is separated from the Bay of Andraki 

 by a low ridge of hills bounding it seawards, 

 whilst on the north rises a steep declivity as- 

 cending to the mountain plateau, on which are 

 the three Cyanese. The fortress is small, scarce 

 eighty yards in length, and appears to be an 

 early Greek erection. The eminence upon which 

 it stands is scarce forty feet above the plain, 

 and descends abruptly on the west side to a 

 marshy valley at the head of a small indenta- 

 tion of the coast called Vromo Limniona. In 

 the marsh there appeared to be a few small 

 buildings in ruins. Close under the south end 

 of the fortress we found a large and beautiful 

 rock-tomb bearing a Lycian inscription, and 

 before it another tomb excavated clear of the 

 rock, and surmounted by a sarcophagus. Nei- 

 ther of them was inscribed, but a few paces in 

 front of the latter are five or six rock-tablets, 



