192 OLYMPUS. 



pearance of rock -tombs, but on a close examina- 

 tion proved to be constructed of blocks built into 

 excavations. There are many inscriptions here. 

 These tombs belong to Olympus, among the ruins 

 of which city we suddenly entered on rounding 

 a projecting arm of the mountain. The more 

 ancient part of them are situated in an expansion 

 of the gorge, the entrance of which seawards is 

 nearly closed up by steep and peaked rocks, 

 crowned by the remains of Genevese fortifi- 

 cations. A theatre and the traces of several 

 temples, of one of which a fine portal is standing, 

 are buried in the thick jungle of chaste trees and 

 reeds bordering the flat ground of the river side. 

 Olympus was one of the many discoveries of 

 Captain Beaufort. 



The name of Deliktash, "the perforated 

 rock," is at present applied to this place by the 

 Turks on account of an aperture or arch through 

 the rocks at the entrance of the gorge, forming 

 the only communication between the ancient 

 city and the sea-coast to the north of the river. 

 It is only high enough for foot-passengers to go 

 through, and horsemen usually wade round the 

 rock through the sea, a course not always prac- 

 ticable. Passing through the Deliktash a noble 



