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ALEXANDRIA TO COS. 
CHAP. 
VIII. 
Bay of 
Finica. 
The wind changing, we continued drifting 
/ about, with occasional apprehensions of starva- 
tion, drowning, or being blown up by the ship's 
taking fire. The first land we saw was ascer- 
tained to be a part of the mountainous coast of 
Caramania, or Lycia. Passing in view of the 
Chelidonian Isles, and Promontorium Sacrum, we 
stood in to Finica Bay, whither the Turkish 
fleet, lying at Abouhir, had resorted for fi'esh 
water from the river Limyrus, which falls into 
the bay, near to the village or town of Finica, 
where Limyra formerly stood. Here we were 
becalmed; and being near enough to see the 
houses on shore, we applied for permission to 
land, that we might examine the remains of 
Limyra, and also of Myra, which stood near 
the mouth of another river, upon the western 
side of the bay. Our Captain, by the advice of 
his pilots, acted for once like a true seaman, 
and would allow no one to land ; intending, as 
as. he said, to get farther out to sea as soon as 
possible. As the evening advanced, a land 
breeze carried us again from the bay ; but 
before night came on, it blew only in hot gusts; 
and being upon deck, we were in utter asto- 
nishment at the indescribable grandeur of the 
Lycian coast, and the awful pheenomena by 
which we were surrounded. Stupendous moun- 
