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INSCRIPTIONS. 



as at home. Turning towards the lattice, we 

 endeavoured to express our gratitude by making 

 as respectful and graceful a salaam as western 

 awkwardness could accomplish. The information 

 respecting the existence of inscriptions proved 

 correct. We found fourteen, not one of which, 

 however, made mention of the place; we had 

 time to copy only the more legible, and apparent- 

 ly more interesting. An inscription we had 

 previously found in the wet ditch is of interest 

 from the mention it contains of a lady of the 

 same name as the city. 



During our stay at Adalia, whilst Mr. Daniell 

 remained in the town to obtain an interview with 

 the Pacha, we made an excursion to examine the 

 country between the city and the foot of Climax, 

 with the view of ascertaining whether it afforded 

 any evidence of the existence of the fortress of 

 Olbia, as conjectured by Colonel Leake. * 



* " The position of Olbia is still uncertain ; but as Strabo 

 and Ptolemy agree in placing it at the beginning of Pam- 

 phylia, between Attaleia and the Lycian frontier, I am in- 

 clined to think that its remains may still be found (especially 

 if Strabo has truly described it as a great fortress) in some 

 part of the plain which extends for seven miles from the 

 modern Adalia to the foot of Mount Solyma." — Leake s Asia 

 Minor, p. 190. 



