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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north-east, and is as usual scooped out
of the hill. Not far from thence is a
very antient building, about forty feet
square, with two circular projections;
the walls are of a sand-stone, which has
been much Avorn b}^ the weather, and
are ten feet in thickness. Near the mouth
of the river we found some baths; they
are built against the side of the rock, and
vaulted ; and in each of the chambers
there appears to have been flues.

Nearly fronting the theatre there is a
long ruined aqueduct on arches, which,
crossing the river, communicates with a
distant hill. There must have been some
extraordinary motive for this expensive
mode of supplying the town with water
from such a distance, when a river ran
close to its walls ; and there does not
seem to be any reason for believing that
the river could have failed in the sum-
mer, as it rises in mountains whose heads
are buried in eternal snow. But it is
possible, that, like the Cataractes, it was