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undulating hills, and bounded in the far distance 

 by the waves washing the sacred promontory of 

 Chelidonium, and by the peaks of Mount Solyma. 

 The remains of this city consisted of many 

 ancient buildings, including a small theatre, of 

 which a few rows of seats only remained, strange- 

 ly placed facing the precipitous side of the moun- 

 tain. This theatre does not appear to have ex- 

 ceeded one hundred feet in diameter. Walls, 

 built of squared and well-finished blocks, and an 

 aqueduct, extend beyond the general mass of 

 ruins. Among them was a Christian church. 



There are numerous built tombs and sarco- 

 phagi, many of them highly ornamented with 

 carved wreaths of flowers. Among the favou- 

 rite ornaments were a round shield and spear, 

 rosettes, and circles. On two a bull's head was 

 carved ; on another a lion, in high relief, but 

 of bad workmanship. On most of the tombs 

 were long inscriptions in fine preservation, in 

 which the name of the town, P^debessus, fre- 

 quently occurred, sometimes in conjunction with 

 that of Acalissus. There was a single rock-tomb, 

 but not inscribed. The modern name of the site 

 is Kosahagatch. Not far off to the north a 

 ravine enters the mountains, through which in 



