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nies. A knowledge of the peculiarities of this people,
obtained from a close examination of their works, will
throw much light upon the subject of these pages.
Early in the reign of Cyrus the Great, and during his
conquest of the northern provinces of Asia Minor, his
general Harpagus was employed in subduing Ionia and
the southern provinces, Having conquered the mari-
time cities of Ionia, Harpagus landed at Halicarnassus,
and proceeded to attack the Pedassians*, who in their
fortified city, situated at the foot of Mount Lida, were
the only Carians that opposed him : they at length sub-
mitted, and Harpagus, having incorporated the lonians,
iEolians and Carians with his forces, proceeded against
the Lycians. I shall here quote the Avords of Herodo-
tusf :—■
" When Harpagus led his army towards Xanthus,
the Lycians boldly advanced to meet him, and, though
inferior in number, behaved with the greatest bravery.
* On my first arrival at the large town of Moolah, noticed in my
Journal of 1838, I approached it from the south-east, having laid down
my track over a great extent of unmapped country. My position thus
obtained for the town being more than thirty miles from the coast, was
declared by those most learned in ancient geography to be too far inland
for the city of Pedassus, as that was known to be but six miles from
the coast. The recent coast surveys, having carried the Gulf of Cnidus
twenty-five miles further inland to the eastward, confirm the position
I laid down for Moolah, and my idea of its being the ancient Pedassus,
situated on the western termination of the range of Mount Cadmus, the
last mountain of which range must have been Mount Lida.
f Beloe's Translation, lib. i. cap. 17(3.
Ji 2
obtained from a close examination of their works, will
throw much light upon the subject of these pages.
Early in the reign of Cyrus the Great, and during his
conquest of the northern provinces of Asia Minor, his
general Harpagus was employed in subduing Ionia and
the southern provinces, Having conquered the mari-
time cities of Ionia, Harpagus landed at Halicarnassus,
and proceeded to attack the Pedassians*, who in their
fortified city, situated at the foot of Mount Lida, were
the only Carians that opposed him : they at length sub-
mitted, and Harpagus, having incorporated the lonians,
iEolians and Carians with his forces, proceeded against
the Lycians. I shall here quote the Avords of Herodo-
tusf :—■
" When Harpagus led his army towards Xanthus,
the Lycians boldly advanced to meet him, and, though
inferior in number, behaved with the greatest bravery.
* On my first arrival at the large town of Moolah, noticed in my
Journal of 1838, I approached it from the south-east, having laid down
my track over a great extent of unmapped country. My position thus
obtained for the town being more than thirty miles from the coast, was
declared by those most learned in ancient geography to be too far inland
for the city of Pedassus, as that was known to be but six miles from
the coast. The recent coast surveys, having carried the Gulf of Cnidus
twenty-five miles further inland to the eastward, confirm the position
I laid down for Moolah, and my idea of its being the ancient Pedassus,
situated on the western termination of the range of Mount Cadmus, the
last mountain of which range must have been Mount Lida.
f Beloe's Translation, lib. i. cap. 17(3.
Ji 2