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)

KORGHOS. 233

A mole of great unhewn rocks projects
from one angle of the fortress, about a
hundred yards across the bay; and is
terminated by a solid building twenty
feet square, with pilasters at the corners;
from the fragments on the top, it seems
to have supported a column, or, perhaps,
a statue. This would have been a judi-
cious place for a lighthouse, but there
did not appear to have been any means
of ascending to it: it is undermined all
round, either intentionally, or by the
sea; and is balanced, as it were, on a
kind of central pillar, composed of small
rubble stone, but united by very hard
cement.

The walls of the city may still be trac-
ed, and numerous tombs, catacombs,
baths, churches, and dwelling-houses,
invite a more diligent examination than
we had time to bestow: of these last,
several stood on the margin of the sea,
and flights of steps are cut in the rock
leading up to their doors.