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•clarke’s travels. 
cat in a precipice facing the sea. Many of these have the ap¬ 
pearance of being inaccessible ; but by dint of climbing from 
rock to rock, at the risk of a dangerous fall, it is possible to as¬ 
cend even ?o the highest. They are there fronted with rude 
pillars, whose capitals exhibit the curvature, or horn, generally 
considered as denoting the Ionic order of architecture ; and 
those pillars are integral parts of the solid rock. Some of 
them are twenty feet high. The mouths of these sepulchres 
are closed with beautiful sculptured imitations of brazen or 
iron doors, with hinges, knobs, and bars. The porous nature 
of the rock had occasioned filtrations, and a stalactite deposit 
had nearly covered a very long inscription by the side of one 
of them. All that could be discerned was a repetition of the 
words 'ro /uv^g/ov, as in the former instance. A species of sage, 
growing in great abundance, to the size of a large shrub, also 
covered the rocks here, yielding a fine aromatic smell. Enough 
has perhaps already been said of these monuments; and yet 
not more than a third part of them has been described. The 
whole mountain facing the sea is filled by their remains. y Af¬ 
ter examining that which has been last described, I ascended 
to one above, appearing larger than any of the others. Here 
the rock consisted of a beautiful breccia ; and before the mouth 
oftbis remarkable tomb were columns of that substance, twenty 
feet in height. This is the most elevated of all the sepulchres 
ofTelmessus. The view from it commands the bay. Look¬ 
ing hence upon the w r ater, I could plainly perceive the traces of 
extensive ruins stretching into the sea, visible from that emi¬ 
nence, although covered by the waves. To the east of the 
town, at a considerable distance from it, near the mouth of the 
over Glaucus, there appeared the substruction of an ancient 
work, that seemed to have been part of a mole, and of a for¬ 
tress. The peasants of the place informed us, that ten leagues 
to the east of what are called the Seven Capes , or one day and 
an half’s journey from Macfi, at a village called Kopiucky, 
there are very great ruins, among w hich may be discerned statues, 
columns, and several ancient inscriptions. These reports are 
often exaggerations; but it may be worth while to seek here 
the remains of Xanthus, and of Patara, cities of Lycia, concern¬ 
ing whose modern state w r e have no information ; the one cele¬ 
brated for the siege it sustained against Brutus, and the other 
for the embellishments bestowed upon it by Ptolemy Phila 
delphus. 
