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Strabo and Pliny agree in placing Olbia at the 

 beginning of Pamphylia, or before Attaleia ; both 

 those authors mention it only as a fortress. 

 Ptolemy mentions Olbia, between Phaselis and 

 Attaleia. The Stadiasmus makes no mention of 

 it ; from which it may be inferred that Olbia, 

 at the date of that record, was either not on the 

 coast, or had been absorbed or depopulated by 

 some flourishing city in the immediate neigh- 

 bourhood, such as Attaleia was. Attaleia was 

 the principal seaport of the south of Asia Minor, 

 even as Adalia is now, and the name of the 

 latter is but a slight change of that of the 

 former ; moreover, as Colonel Leake has pointed 

 out, the ancient Bishopric of Attaleia is still 

 retained in Adalia. All these points led us to 

 adopt the opinion that Adalia is the ancient 

 Attaleia, and that, if we sought, we should find 

 evidence of the site of Olbia on the Lycian 

 side of that city. 



In passing along the shore on our way to 

 Adalia, we had seen traces of ruins near the 

 Arab Soo river. To these we directed our 

 course; but instead of descending to the sea-side, 

 rode westwards over the rocky plain. At about 

 three miles and a half from Adalia, we suddenly 



