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MELANIPPE. 



until a late period. Gaga? is mentioned by 

 Scylax.* 



April 12th. — To-day we continued our exa- 

 mination of Gagse; and in the afternoon rode 

 along the shore eastwards in search of Melanippe, 

 which place is mentioned in the Stadiasmus as 

 being sixty stadia from Gagse, and half that 

 distance from the sacred promontory. A rocky 

 point, cutting off an inlet from the bay of Phi- 

 neka, arrested our progress ; but on the opposite 

 shore, on a projection of the coast, we saw 

 the ruins of a small fortress and a few other 

 buildings. This site would agree well with the 

 position of Melanippe. 



Gagae is said to have been also named Paleo- 

 polis. Its name of Gaga? f was derived from 

 a sort of stone called gagates, the nature of which 

 cannot now be ascertained. There is no pecu- 

 liarity in the mineral character of the surround- 



* Cramer, p. 255. 



f We are indebted to Colonel Leake for the two following 

 passages on another version of the origin of the name of 

 Gagse, extracted from the " Etymological Magazine." 1st. 

 " The Rhodians arriving on the coast of Lycia, with the inten- 

 tion of founding a colony, called out in the Doric dialect to 

 the Lycian barbarians, « Td • Ta • ' (land, land) ; and having 

 received it, called the city which they built there 1 Vaya.' 



