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retraced our steps to some walls and a tomb or 

 two, which Sir C. Fellows mentions having seen, 

 and to which he attaches such importance as to 

 regard them as denoting the site of an ancient 

 city. We, however, saw merely the walls of a 

 solitary building, apparently a church or small 

 monastery, which we were not disposed to date 

 many centuries back. The sarcophagi, of which 

 we saw the remains of only two, stand near a 

 small rock, in a narrow part of the valley, where 

 the road has to cross over a rugged projection 

 of the hills on the north side of it. This pro- 

 jection forms a natural division between the dis- 

 trict of Arycanda, or the upper part of the valley, 

 and the lower, which belonged to Limyra. We 

 are therefore inclined to believe that it may 

 have been a station for a guard-house between 

 the two territories, more particularly as Ary- 

 canda was said to belong to Milyas ; and that 

 these two tombs are the remaining evidence of 

 a border station — as on the great mountain pass 

 between Phineka and Myra, where a few sarco- 

 phagi are to be seen near each station or tower 

 on that route. Here, however, we saw no other 

 remains of ancient date besides the sarcophagi ; 

 probably no fort was needed, as the above men- 



