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stone. These, Pagniotti told us, were the same 

 as were seen by Sir C. Fellows, and supposed by 

 him in his second work to be connected with the 

 site of Melanippe. They are, however, at least 

 two miles and a half from the coast, and nearly 

 five from the position assigned to that place 

 in the Stadiasmus. Part of the mountain-side 

 adjoining is well cultivated, and occupied by a 

 few Urook and Turkish families, the latter living 

 in stone-built cottages forming the village of 

 Phinekakeuy, delightfully shaded by plane-trees, 

 and well supplied with springs. The Urooks 

 live in their tents, tending their flocks in the 

 wilder and more elevated parts of the mountain. 

 We could hear of no ruins connected with the 

 tombs just mentioned, which are interesting as 

 the last examples of true Lycian rock-tombs 

 occurring in the eastern parts of Lycia. Those 

 seen at Rhodiapolis were the only other examples 

 of these remarkable sepulchres met with east- 

 ward of the Allagheer Tchy. The rarity and 

 eventual absence of them as we advance into the 

 district of the Solymi, the country which the 

 aborigines of Lycia were said more especially to 

 have inhabited, is an important fact bearing upon 

 the history of the people who constructed them, 



