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the side of a narrow and fertile glen. A rocky 

 peak, rising from the valley below the village, 

 and accessible only on one side, was crowned 

 by a small but well-built fortress. In the odoor 

 we found a Turk in Albanian costume, a refugee 

 from the Morea. 



"April 8th. — The fortress below proving to be 

 entirely constructed of small stones and mortar, 

 the characteristic masonry of the so-called middle- 

 age buildings in Asia Minor, I did not delay here. 

 The Turks call such buildings Jew castles. Leav- 

 ing Sooren, the next village we came to was Ke- 

 osek, from whence we descended to Haggi-vella, 

 about a mile from which place I passed an old 

 Turkish cemetery, where there were numerous 

 columns and other architectural fragments, pro- 

 bably brought from the ruins of Corydalla. In 

 the evening I rejoined my companions in the 

 konak at Armootlee." 



April 10th. — Yesterday and to-day have been 

 spent among the ruins of Rhodiapolis, sketching 

 and copying inscriptions. Among them is the 

 longest we have met with in Lycia ; so long, 

 that after giving as much time as we could 

 spare to the task, all three of us dividing the 

 labour, we could carry away not more than a 



