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CHAPTER XX.

PATAEA.—COINS.—PASSAGE OP MOUNTAINS.—DISCOVERY OP THE AN-
CIENT PHELLUS.—ANTIPHELLT7S.----ITS TOMBS.—KASTELOEIZO, THE

ANCIENT MEOISTE.----JEWELS AND COSTUME OP THE PEASANTEY.—

CASSABAR.—ANCIENT TEABALA ?—SINGULAR GOEGrE IN THE MOUN-
TAINS.—MYBA.—TOMBS.

April 21st.—This morning we rode down the plain to Patara,
which place I have before visited. I again sought the points
of the greatest interest—its very perfect theatre, the arched
entrance to the city, and clusters of palm-trees ; and, owing
to the drier state of the swamp, I was enabled to visit a
beautiful small temple about the centre of the ruined city:
its doorway, within a portico in antis, is in high preservation,
as well as its walls ; the doorway is of beautiful Greek work-
manship, ornamented in the Corinthian style, and in fine
proportion and scale; the height is about twenty-four feet.
I have sought in vain among the numerous funeral inscrip-
tions for any trace of Lycian characters. I copied the in-
scription in the Greek language from the wall of the theatre,
which is cut in large well-formed letters, over the eastern
entrance of the proscenium.

In a wood to the east of the city is a solitary instance ol
a Lycian architectural tomb cut in the rock in the Eliza-
bethan form; but upon the panel of the door are three ill-
cut figures, representing a man, his wife, and a child; they

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