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tifiecl limestone clipping at an angle of thirty 

 degrees, and along the outcrop of each avail- 

 able stratum, the tombs are excavated ; so that 

 they range in inclined lines corresponding to 

 the dip. More than one hundred were counted, 

 about twenty bearing inscriptions, the principal 

 part of which are Lycian. In the few Greek 

 ones the name of the city never once occurs, — an 

 unusual circumstance at a Lycian site of such 

 consequence. Several of the rock-tombs had 

 Ionic pilasters : on such the Lycian inscriptions 

 were usually badly cut. The letters on all had 

 been coloured red, green, or blue ; red being 

 the most frequent colour. There are no arch- 

 lidded tombs here. We were espied in our oc- 

 cupation by some ragged boys, who came run- 

 ning to us from the cottages. We sent them 

 home for coins, and in a short time they returned 

 with a few copper ones, which a piastre or two 

 put us in possession of. As soon as they found 

 such liberal pay, they started off, searching over 

 the ruins for more, especially in the neighbourhood 

 of the theatre. They frequently returned to us 

 during the day, each boy with two or three coins, 

 most of them small. Among them were two pre- 

 senting the three first letters of the name of the 



