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)

234 ■ KORGHOS.

Strabo particularizes hereabouts, " a
rock called Pcecile having steps cut
therein, which lead towards Seleucia."
Nothing, however, was perceived, at
least on the coast, that would suit the
variegated appearance which that name
seems to imply; though of steps cut
in the rock there are abundance about
all these little bays; indeed the stone-
cutting disposition of the former inhabit-
ants is manifest, not only in the cata-
combs, reservoirs, and moats already
mentioned, but even houses were con-
trived by the same means. Some of
these habitations are still in existence,
the apartments being curiously excavated
so as to leave both the external walls and
the partitions of the living rock; with
proper apertures for doors and windows ;
and even mortises for the insertion of
joists.

A great number of inscriptions were
copied here; but they were all sepul-
chral, except one relating to the baths