RUINS OF BUBON. 265 



lie honours paid to a certain matron of Bubon, for 

 her good services in multiplying the number of 

 young Bubonians. The ruins are of no great 

 extent or architectural interest. They consist 

 of several terraces, strewed with the prostrated 

 remains of temples and other buildings, and of a 

 theatre built of coarse sandstone, and of small 

 dimensions, being one hundred and sixty feet 

 in diameter; twenty rows of seats remain. There 

 are no traces of a proscenium ; it is the meanest 

 structure of the kind we had seen in Lycia. 

 On the summit of the hill was the acropolis, 

 the only part of the town surrounded by walls. 

 It faces the range of mountains separating the 

 valley of Xanthus from the country watered by 

 the Indus, and commands the entrance to the 

 pass over those mountains. The pass itself is 

 six thousand feet above the sea level, and the 

 mountains on either side of it between eight and 

 nine thousand feet high. 



Before leaving Ebajik, we carefully examined 

 the rock tomb near the village; there is no 

 inscription upon it. It has the aspect of being 

 as ancient as any in Lycia, and resembles the 

 Bellerophon tomb at Tlos, having a pediment 

 supported by two rudely shaped (Doric?) pillars. 



