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2BEFACE.
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determined to turn my steps at once to Lyeia; and I have, as
will be seen from the line of my route on the map, traversed
it in several directions. The new discoveries which I have
made on this excursion have richly rewarded me; and I am
led to believe that the materials for the historian, the philo-
logist, and the lover of art, which I have rescued from the
ruins I visited, will be found of no inconsiderable value.
The geographer will see that I have mapped the interior
of the country, which hitherto has been unknown, and left
blank in the maps: for the coast I am indebted to the ad-
mirable Survey of Captain Beaufort.
In this small province I have discovered the remains of
eleven cities not denoted in any map, and of which I believe
it was not known that any traces existed. These eleven,
with Xanthus and Tlos described in my former Journal, and
the eleven other cities along the coast visited by former
travellers, make together twenty-four of the thirty-six cities
mentioned by Pliny as having left remains still seen in his
age. I also observed, and have noticed in my Journal, many
other piles of ruins not included in the above numbers.
Many of the coins which I have found, and of which I
give copies in the following pages, were before unknown to
the numismatist, and others will enable him to assign place
and date to coins in various museums, which have before
been unexplained or erroneously attributed.
Of the beautiful sculptures and coloured bas-reliefs found
among the ruins, I have brought away numerous drawings,
with which my Journal is illustrated.
Some of the inscriptions, of which I took copies on this
tour, are of great value, as supplying a key to the hitherto
IX
determined to turn my steps at once to Lyeia; and I have, as
will be seen from the line of my route on the map, traversed
it in several directions. The new discoveries which I have
made on this excursion have richly rewarded me; and I am
led to believe that the materials for the historian, the philo-
logist, and the lover of art, which I have rescued from the
ruins I visited, will be found of no inconsiderable value.
The geographer will see that I have mapped the interior
of the country, which hitherto has been unknown, and left
blank in the maps: for the coast I am indebted to the ad-
mirable Survey of Captain Beaufort.
In this small province I have discovered the remains of
eleven cities not denoted in any map, and of which I believe
it was not known that any traces existed. These eleven,
with Xanthus and Tlos described in my former Journal, and
the eleven other cities along the coast visited by former
travellers, make together twenty-four of the thirty-six cities
mentioned by Pliny as having left remains still seen in his
age. I also observed, and have noticed in my Journal, many
other piles of ruins not included in the above numbers.
Many of the coins which I have found, and of which I
give copies in the following pages, were before unknown to
the numismatist, and others will enable him to assign place
and date to coins in various museums, which have before
been unexplained or erroneously attributed.
Of the beautiful sculptures and coloured bas-reliefs found
among the ruins, I have brought away numerous drawings,
with which my Journal is illustrated.
Some of the inscriptions, of which I took copies on this
tour, are of great value, as supplying a key to the hitherto