156 PORT OF LIMYRA. 



the Stadiasmus, and the castle of Phineka, we 

 rode down to it to day. The castle, which is a 

 conspicuous object from the sea, is entirely a 

 middle-age construction, with turreted walls. It 

 occupies a rocky slope that juts out a few yards 

 into the sea. At the termination of the point, in 

 front of the castle, stands a small square tower 

 built of rectangular blocks of limestone. It is 

 occupied by the custom-house officer's deputy, 

 and the Turkish ensign is daily displayed from its 

 summit. From a distance, this seemed to be an 

 ancient edifice ; but on -a close examination, it 

 proved to be built out of the materials of some 

 older building. We were therefore induced to 

 examine the face of the hill above the modern 

 fortress, where we found close adjoining it the 

 prostrate walls of a Hellenic tower, and five 

 or six fallen or broken sarcophagi. Three were 

 inscribed ; one of them was the tomb of a native 

 of Limyra. It was the first time that the name 

 of that town had any where occurred. This 

 place may have been the port or landing-place 

 of Limyra. Its position, however, agrees with 

 the distance stated in the Stadiasmus between 

 Gagoe and the tower Isium, viz., sixty stadia ; 

 but the same distance is also given in that docu- 



