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flows, Mount Mas jcites *, the state of Andriaca^, Myra^, the 
towns of AperrsD^ and Antiphellos'^ formerly called Ha- 
bessus, and in a corner Phellos^, after whicli comes Pyrra, 
and then the city of Xanthus", fifteen miles from the sea, 
as also a river known by the same name. We then come 
to Patara^, formerly Pataros, and Sidyma, situate on a moun- 
^ The modem Akhtar Dagh. 
2 Now Andraki. This was the port of Myra, next mentioned. It stood 
at the mouth of the river now known as the Andraki. Cramer observes 
that it was here St. Paul was put on board the ship of Alexandria, Acts 
xxni. 5, 6. 
StiJl called Myra by the Glreeks, but Dembre by the Turks. It was 
built on a rock twenty stadia from the sea. St. Paul touched here on liis 
voyage as a prisoner to Rome, and from the mention made of it in Acts 
xxvii. 5, 6, it would appear to have been an important sea-port. There 
are magnificent ruins of tliis city still to be seen, in part hewn out of the 
soUd rock. 
From an inscription found by CockereU at the head of the Hassac 
Bay, it is thought that Aperlce is the proper name of this place, though 
again there are coins of Grordian which give the name as Aperrce. It is 
fixed by the Stadismus as sixty stadia west of Somena, which Leake sup- 
poses to be the same as the Simena mentioned above by Pliny. 
5 Now called Antephelo or Andifilo, on the south coast of Lycia, at 
the head of a bay. Its theatre is still complete, with the exception of 
the proscenium. There are also other interesting remains of antiquity. 
^ Fellowes places the site of PheUos near a village called Saaret^ west- 
north-west of Antiphellos, where he found the remains of a town ; but 
Spratt considers this to mark the site of the Pyrra of Phny, mentioned 
above — -judging from Pliny's words. Modern geographers deem it more 
consistent with his meaning to look for PheUos north of Antiphellos than 
in any other direction, and the ruins at Tchookoorbye, north of Anti- 
phellos, on the spur of a mountain called Feherdagh, are thought to be 
those of PheUos. 
7 The most famous city of Lycia. It stood on the western bank of the 
river of that name, now caUed the Echen Chai. It was twice besieged, 
and on both occasions the mhabitants destroyed themselves with their 
property, first by the Persians under Harpagus, and afterwards by the 
Romans under Brutus. Among its most famous temples were those of 
Sarpedon and of the Lycian ApoUo. The ruins now knoAvn by the name 
of G-unik, have been explored by Sfr C. Fellows and other traveUers, 
and a portion of its remains are now to be seen in the British Museum, 
under the name of the Xanthian marbles. 
^ Its ruins stiU bear the same name. It w^as a flourishing seaport, on 
a promontory of the same name, sixty stadia east of the mouth of the 
Xanthus. It was early colonized by the Dorians from Crete, and became 
a chief seat of the worship of ApoUo, from whose son Patarus it was said 
to have received its name. Ptolemy PhUadelphus enlarged it, and caUed 
