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)

196 ANAMOUR CASTLE.

tie for the noble Cherif Toomjy, a faith-
ful servant of his sovereign; and that
when the conquest was completed, he
conferred the second command in the
government on the pilgrim Moustapha
Esmer.

The castle is not far from the mouth
of a rapid river about 150 feet wide,
•called the Direk Ondessy,* which ap-
pears to have been the Arymagdus of
Ptolemy. A party of officers, whom I
had occasion to send to the Bey of the
district, crossed the river in a kind of
ferry, or float, which swings from an an-
chor in the middle of the stream. In
their ride they passed a few columns and
other remnants of antient buildings ; and
in the plain which the river traverses,
they met with many small villages and
patches of cultivation. The Bey, Abdul
Muim, received them with remarkable
politeness; he was sitting in his Kiosk, a

* The meaning of Direk is a pillar ; that of Ondessy
we could not discover.