138 MYRA. 



March 24th. — We examined some of the ruins 

 in the plain, and added a few more sketches to 

 our portfolios. The extensive burying-ground 

 which we passed through on first entering Myra, 

 was also well hunted over for inscriptions, but 

 we found only one worth copying; it was on an 

 inverted pedestal. Here there is a large col- 

 lection of architectural fragments of all orders 

 and descriptions, ornaments of the ancient build- 

 ings of Myra. Marble columns inverted, with 

 the capitals in one part and their pedestals 

 in another, massive lintels and inscribed frag- 

 ments, — almost all in a reverse position to 

 that in which they were originally intended to 

 be placed — are strangely mingled with turban- 

 headed tomb-stones, inscribed with verses of the 

 Koran. 



March 25th. — On rising this morning we had 

 the misfortune to find our only remaining watch 

 had received some injury during the night, by 

 which it was rendered useless. We were con- 

 sequently during the remainder of the journey, 

 subjected to much inconvenience ; but the prin- 

 cipal evil occasioned by it, was the rendering our 

 time-distance uncertain and most probably inac- 

 curate. For it, we were henceforth entirely de- 



