RUINS OF TELMESSUS. 321 
than any of the others. Here the rock consisted 
of a beautiful breccia; and before the mouth 
of tliis remarkable tovih were columns of that 
substance, at least twenty feet in height. This 
is the most elevated of all the sepulchres of 
Telmessus. The view from it commands the bay. 
Looking hence upon the water, it is easy to 
perceive the traces of extensive Ruins stretching 
into the sea, visible from this eminence, althousfh 
covered by the waves. To the east of the town, 
at a considerable distance from it, and near to 
the mouth of the river Glaucus ', there appeared 
to be the foundation of an antient work, which 
seemed to have been part of a mole, and of a 
fortress. 
The peasants of Macri informed us, that ten 
leagues to the east of what are called The Seven 
Capes, or one day and a half's journey from these 
Ruins, at a village called Kovniicky, there are other ^"'"*, ***" 
very extensive ruins, among which may be dis- 
cerned statues, columns, and several antient inscrip- 
tions. These reports are often exaggerations : but 
it may be of consequence to determine whether 
the Ruins at Koynucky be not the remains of 
Xanthus, or oi Paiara, cities of Lyci a, concerning 
(l) " Amnis G/««c«m deferens 7V/mc5s«w." Pirn. Hist. Nat. lib. v. 
torn. I. p. 272. L. Bat. 1635. 
