250 LAGBE. 



its margin were scattered in several places squared 

 blocks, doric columns, and altars, brought from 

 some neighbouring ancient site, to ornament the 

 burying-places of the Turkish villages. Among 

 them was the mutilated figure of a lion, probably 

 from the lid of a sarcophagus, and the head- 

 less statue of a man, clothed in a flowing tunic, 

 and having the right arm supported upon the 

 breast by a sling. The art displayed in these 

 relics was bad, and probably late Roman. On 

 a rocky eminence close by, we saw the walls 

 of an ancient fortress. In the burying-ground 

 of the neighbouring village of Manni, we found 

 two inscriptions. In one mention was made 

 of a town called Lagbe, 



AHMOCAA 



TBeiUN 



AA 



TBHNHEY 

 XHN 



No mention is made in ancient authors of such 

 a city. 



At sunset we halted in the village of Osman 

 Kalfeler, at the northern extremity of the marsh. 

 The plain here is about three hundred feet 

 higher than that of Stenez. It is completely 



