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)

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fellows lying on their backs, who strove
in vain to turn them before they got into
deep water. In less than an hour, how-
ever, a sufficient number was caught to
load the boat; and many of them
weighed two hundred pounds.

The north shore of Ay as bay is a level
plain of firm soil, from ten to twenty
feet above the sea: it was covered with
coarse grass, intermixed with a few
patches of corn.

On the extreme point is Ay as Kalassy, a
small village comprised within the walls
of a half-antient castle. Fortune did not
permit me to reach this castle ; but some
of the officers by whom it was visited,
observed there the shattered remains of
a port and artificial pier; probably the
antient iEgae, of which the present name
Ayas appears to be a corruption. A little
to the westward there is a round tower,
with an Arabic inscription over the door;
and several of the stones in this tower