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DELTA OF THE XANTHTTS.
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continuing our course at last saw before us the Delta of the
Xanthus ; Patara being at one angle, and this place occupy-
ing the other toward the sea. Uslann has but three sheds,
and serves as the port, or scala, for shipping fire-wood and
salt-fish to Rhodes. Two Greeks carry on this trade, and
are the whole population. A village, consisting of a few
huts, lies about a mile inland from this place, which is pro-
bably another mile from the sea-coast. We were supplied
here with eight fowls for fifteen piastres, scarcely five-pence
each: but this is not so cheap in proportion as the produce
of the interior towards the south. The prices of our pro-
visions I find are higher than they were two years ago.
We were attracted hither by the report of the existence
of ruins in this quarter, and also by the admirable chart of
Captain Beaufort, who lays them down as ruins not yet
visited. Colonel Leake had also directed me hither as the
probable site of the ancient Cydna, or Pydna, but of this
discovery I am not satisfied.
About a mile distant, near to the sea, we found a rocky hill,
fortified with a beautifully built Cyclopean wall, with towers
and loop-holes, and showing a fine specimen of an ancient
Greek fortification: the walls had a terrace for the passage
of a guard within the battlements, and this course passed by
333
squ&re of hi
arep.
n the honev.
%s
? to native
■■• fe*
to be*
iniple, beiuff
p to them
mbi Be
A I doubt hi
*r and size
be considered ail
•wed a more
hone*, than ik
•bTekifc
r, after leaving h
r mountain coins
tie cultivated pfe
affording: pasture!-:
ir weft
me giddy as I!
»n
iniingdowna
toifetto
continuing our course at last saw before us the Delta of the
Xanthus ; Patara being at one angle, and this place occupy-
ing the other toward the sea. Uslann has but three sheds,
and serves as the port, or scala, for shipping fire-wood and
salt-fish to Rhodes. Two Greeks carry on this trade, and
are the whole population. A village, consisting of a few
huts, lies about a mile inland from this place, which is pro-
bably another mile from the sea-coast. We were supplied
here with eight fowls for fifteen piastres, scarcely five-pence
each: but this is not so cheap in proportion as the produce
of the interior towards the south. The prices of our pro-
visions I find are higher than they were two years ago.
We were attracted hither by the report of the existence
of ruins in this quarter, and also by the admirable chart of
Captain Beaufort, who lays them down as ruins not yet
visited. Colonel Leake had also directed me hither as the
probable site of the ancient Cydna, or Pydna, but of this
discovery I am not satisfied.
About a mile distant, near to the sea, we found a rocky hill,
fortified with a beautifully built Cyclopean wall, with towers
and loop-holes, and showing a fine specimen of an ancient
Greek fortification: the walls had a terrace for the passage
of a guard within the battlements, and this course passed by