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ATRASAN. 



and would go far to show that they were the 

 work of the Persian conquerors, whose favourite 

 abodes were in the rich valleys of maritime 

 Lycia, where almost exclusively such monuments 

 are to be found. 



From Phinekakeuy we descended by a pic- 

 turesque ravine to Atrasan, passing several ri- 

 vulets meandering down the mountain-glens, and 

 imparting verdure and luxuriance to the vege- 

 tation of their banks, in the East always a 

 pleasant and noticeable sight to the traveller. 

 Atrasan is on the banks of one of these, and 

 is hidden among groves of fruit trees. It stands 

 at the entrance of a pass leading to the bay of 

 the same name. Here we purchased a fine lamb, 

 weighing fifteen or sixteen pounds, for six pias- 

 tres ; and Nicolo bought, for three hundred 

 piastres, a horse, whose name was " Caplan," — 

 since he had survived a conflict with a leopard, 

 and bore the scars of the wounds it had inflicted, 

 — to replace the poor animal which had been 

 drowned in the Phineka river. Nicolo was so 

 overjoyed at his bargain that he forgot his re- 

 pentance about breaking Lent, and again sinned, 

 though two weeks of fasting yet remained. At 

 Gaga) he and Giorgio had gathered samphire and 



