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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the eastward of the city, terminates in
abrupt cliffs along the shore. These
cliffs are above 100 feet high, and consi-
derably overhang the sea; not in conse-
quence of their base having crumbled
away, but from their summit projecting
in a lip, which consists of parallel la-
mina, each jutting out beyond its infe-
rior layer; as if water had been con-
tinually flowing over them, and continu-
ally forming fresh accretions. It is there-
fore not impossible that this accumula-
tion may have gradually impeded the
course of that body of water which had
once formed here a magnificent cataract;
and may have also forced it to divide
into various channels.

Secondly, a few miles farther to the
eastward, at Laara, there remain some
ruins of a town and harbour, which per-
fectly answer to the site of Attalia, and
to no other port mentioned by the an-
tient geographers. D'Anville seems to
allude to this place, which he says is now

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