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THE CIBYRATIC PLAIN. 



of violet, squill, and fritillary. In a lake below 

 the summit were numbers of a beautifully 

 variegated species of duck, feeding upon the 

 Lymncea stagnalis, a mollusk which we saw 

 no where else during our tour in Asia Minor. 



The crops of corn on the Cibyratic plain 

 are much more forward than at Stenez, yet 

 the elevation is the same, — about three thousand 

 five hundred feet above the level of the sea. 



May 8th. — Leaving Horzoom we rode north- 

 wards over low ridges of lacustrine tertiary marls 

 towards Ebajik. In an hour and a half we 

 entered a narrow valley, bounded by wooded 

 hills, and watered by a willow-shaded stream. 

 After passing through a narrow gorge, we en- 

 sum, however, after much parleying, was reduced to one hun- 

 dred talents, with the addition , of ten thousand Medimni of 

 wheat. This sufficiently proves the opulence and fertility 

 of this district, a circumstance which is also insisted on by 

 Strabo (xiii. p. 631). The last tyrant of Cibyra, who bore also 

 the name of Moagetes, became involved in hostilities with the 

 Romans, and was conquered by Murena, who divided his 

 territory into two parts ; Cibyra was annexed to Phrygia ; but 

 Bubon, Balbura, and Oenoanda, to Lycia. From this time 

 we find Cibyra mentioned as the chief town of a conventus, 

 comprising not less than twenty-five towns. Cibyra was de- 

 stroyed by an earthquake, and afterwards restored by Tibe- 

 rius." 



