than grandeur; and the peculiar feature is the great contrast or division between the hills and valleys, the latter being so level as to appear formed by lakes. In Bithynia the scenery is of a bolder character; its fine mountain range of Olympus giving it a resemblance to Switzerland; its valleys are also rich, with luxuriant woods. The flat-topped hills and immense table-lands of Phrygia, from their great elevation, often swampy and seldom bearing a tree, present more of the wild and dreary than of the picturesque. Pisidia, including the Taurus range, again partakes with Bithynia of the Alpine character, but the woods in this district are not so finely grown. The extreme beauty of Pamphylia is derived more from distant effects than near views. The limestone mountains which form the distant horizon shoot their jagged peaks of silvery rock, or capped with snow, against the clear sky, while their bases are washed by the blue ocean, which they inclose in their wide-stretched arms. Lycia is more mountainous, and resembles, but far exceeds in the boldness of its cliffs and the richness of its vegetation, the scenery of Parnassus. Its valleys, and particularly that of the Xanthus, are of peculiar beauty. Caria abounds in scenery of the most picturesque kind, its coast being broken into bold headlands, whose ranges, continued into the sea, rise in rocky islands. The south-east of Lydia is less beautiful, and much resembles Sicily or Calabria; but on approaching Smyrna this district has valleys equal to those near Salerno or Naples. The artist visiting Asia Minor would be richly rewarded.

AN ACCOUNT

OF

DISCOVERIES IN LYCIA,

BEING

A JOURNAL KEPT DURING

A SECOND EXCURSION IN ASIA MINOR,

IN 1840.