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)

238 KORGHOS.

initials are slightly engraved, or, rather
scratched on the walls, and were the first
vestiges that we had seen in the whole
extent of this coast, of our having been
preceded by any European traveller.

The inflexions of the coast here, are
so inconsiderable, that it is difficult to
select a point for Strabo's Cape Ane-
murium; but the little island seems to
answer to his Crambusa. Next comes
his Cape Corycus, probably a small
point of land, towards which the ruins of
the city extend; and, indeed, Korghos
is a manifest corruption of that name.

Within twenty stadia, therefore, of
this place must be the saffron cave and
subterranean river described by Strabo;
but we could learn nothing about them
from the few persons we saw; and to have
searched the country without some clue
to guide our steps, would have been at
best a tedious, if not a fruitless task. Of
the many interesting objects in Cilicia,
which the superior claims of the survey