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CHAPTER V. 



Gagse to Adalia. — Sites of Olympus, Phaselis, Apolonia (?) 

 and Marmora (?) — Visit to the Chimsera. — Route of Alex- 

 ander's army from Phaselis to Pamphylia. 



April 13th. — We are not sorry to quit our 

 lodgings at Gaga?, where we had no better 

 quarters than a miserable cowhouse, full of fleas 

 and filth. Sending on our baggage towards 

 Atrasan, we proceeded for a mile and a half up 

 the plain to examine some remains which a 

 peasant told us existed there. We found only a 

 burying-ground containing a few fragments of 

 plain and fluted columns, and some Corinthian 

 capitals. These corresponded with some we 

 had seen in the Turkish burying-ground near 

 Gagse, from which site they had probably been 

 conveyed. From this place we ascended to the 

 summit of the ridge of the mountains separating 

 the plain of Phineka from the east coast of Lycia. 

 Soon after beginning to descend, we passed two 

 rock-tombs at the foot of a detached mass of lime- 



