Beaufort, Francis: Karamania, or a brief description of the south coast of Asia-Minor and of the remains of antiquity: with plans, views, &c. ; collected during a survey of that coast, under the orders of the lords commissioners of the admiralty, in the years 1811 & 1812 (London, 1817)

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CHAPTER I.

PATARA—KASTELORIZO.

Having obtained the necessary Ferman,
or passport, from the Porte, His Ma-
jesty's ship Frederikssteen sailed from
Smyrna, in July, 1811, and shortly after
reached the coast of Karamania.

Our operations began at Yedy-Boo-
roon, or the Seven-Capes, a knot of high
and rugged mountains, which appears to
have been the antient Mount Cragus of
Lycia, the abode of the fabulous Chi-
maera. At the foot of these mountains,

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