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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arts and commerce flourished long after
this coast had hecome the prey of a suc-
cession of ruffian conquerors.

From thence we hastened to examine
a wide field of ruins outside the walls,
which had appeared from the top of the
cape like the remains of a large city. It
was indeed a city, but a city of tombs, a
true Necropolis.

The contrast between the slight and
perishable materials with which the ha-
bitations of the living were constructed,
and the care and skill which the antients
employed to render durable the abodes
of the dead, is more than ordinarily im-
pressed upon the mind at this place; for
though all the tombs have been long
since opened and ransacked, the walls
are still sound; whereas of their dwel-
lings not one continues in existence.
These tombs are small buildings, detach-
ed from each other, and mostly of the
same size, though varying in their pro-
portions ; the roofs are arched, and the