222 ADVANTAGES OF ADALIA. 



two years, and his roads were already suffering 

 from neglect. 



When we were at Adalia, a rumour was cur- 

 rent in the town, that an English consul was 

 appointed : it proved true, and an English- 

 man, Mr. Purdie, is now resident as consul in 

 that town. Adalia thus becomes an important 

 station to the traveller who wishes to explore the 

 southern part of Asia Minor. It is easily reached 

 from Rhodes, where steamers call twice a month 

 on their way from Smyrna to Syria. With 

 Lycia on the one side, and Cilicia and Pam- 

 phylia on the other, the traveller is in the midst 

 of ruins unequalled in interest and preservation, 

 — a great number of which, especially those of 

 Cilicia, are as yet but very imperfectly known. 

 At the khan where we stayed, we were told of 

 several ruins in the neighbourhood, besides those 

 on record ; but being limited as to time, and 

 anxious to complete the exploration of Lycia, 

 especially the upland part and bounds of the 

 province, where the sites of Termessus, Cibyra, 

 and other important cities yet remained, so far 

 as we knew, un visited, we determined on retracing 

 our steps to the Solymian mountains and carefully 

 to examine Milyas and the Pamphylian, Pisidian, 



