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)

284 AYAS BAY.

The low sandy point pushed out by the
Jyhoon has already advanced six miles
beyond what appears to have been the
original line of the shore; and having
taken a direction parallel to the coast of
Ayas, a narrow arm of the sea is left be-
tween them, called Ayas bay. This long
estuary contained the greatest number of
fish and fowl that I ever saw collected
together : every part of its unfrequented
beach was occupied by companies of pe-
licans, swans, geese, ducks, and gulls;
and myriads of fish leaped out of the
water, when roused from their muddv
bed by the boat's keel, as it dragged
along the bottom. There was also an
abundance of very fine turtles, the chase
of which afforded much amusement:
when alarmed by the approach of the
boat, the direction of their flight was
marked by a ripple on the water, and this
shallow enough to admit of the men pur-
suing them on foot; some of them were
so powerful as to escape with two heavy