grotesque masks, perhaps representing the passions; there was no trace of the proscenium, and I was again induced to believe that this part of the ancient theatres might have been sometimes constructed of wood and destroyed by time. Near the theatre were the ruins of a building, probably a small temple, which had been ornamented with columns. No former city was to be traced, and I have little doubt that this was the sacred grove and haunt of Latona, the Letoum which in my last Journal I suggested was on this spot.

Our evenings were not without amusement; the sailors soon made bats and balls, and cricket was perhaps for the first time played in Lycia; at all events the wonder expressed by the living generation showed that it was not a game known to the present inhabitants. The weather was delightful; the thermometer at night stood at 40°, and in the day 64°. Our nights, which were lighted by a full moon, were often varied by alarm of wild beasts, or rather a hope that we might have some sport; the gunner distributed arms to the men, but the game was too wary for inexperienced sportsmen; when we were still, the wild boars and their young came grunting past our tents, and the wolves and jackals howled around us, but the slightest movement among our men only caused the flight of wild ducks, and all was still again.

On the 30th of December we pitched our tents on the plain immediately beneath the ruins of the ancient city. During the three following days rain fell almost incessantly, and we could do little but protect our tents from the effect of the falling torrents by cutting drains around our encampment. We cleared away the brushwood from the scenes of our future labours, and busily contrived abodes for the men, less pervious to the elements and upon higher ground. We reconstructed the ruined walls of a barn, and with fresh-cut trees* formed rafters which were wattled with brushwood:

*We had permission to cut down any trees excepting the Velanéa oak (Quercus Egilops); the acorn of this produces a revenue to the Sultan.

over this were thrown sail-cloths, and a good barrack formed for double our number of men. The gunner's tent and one for the tools were pitched by the side. For the officers and myself, I induced a family, consisting of a mother, two daughters, and a son, to leave us their hut, which was admirably situated for our works. I found, as on my former visits to these people, that money was not the powerful inducement; all offers were ineffectual to persuade them to remove, until we represented the extreme damp and inconvenience we felt from the low ground and from remaining in our tents. They then agreed to move their family to about half a mile distant, and we whitewashed and entered our picturesque abode on the 2nd of January*. Half our hands had gone down to the coast to bring up a part of the stores of planks, poles, ropes, etc., which we had been obliged to leave behind, and with the four or five working men who remained we could do little in commencing our operations.

The object of the expedition was to bring away the basreliefs representing the legend of the Daughters of King Pandarus, surrounding a stele, or high square monument, which we called the "Harpy Tomb,"-the beautiful gothicshaped tomb having chariots and horses sculptured upon its top, which we called the "Horse Tomb,"-and some three or four fragments of sculpture built into walls. These were the specified visible objects we sought to remove; but I expected to find much more, and I was not mistaken.

I had noticed in my Journal that, from the massive foundation still built-in with its rock upon the brow of a cliff immediately above our tents, in all probability temples had

* Our room was twelve feet square; upon the floor of this we occasionally spread eleven beds: the servants occupied the portico, which also served as our kitchen. The Cavasses had a hut to themselves, which was the resort of all the passing Turks; in the evening they had often music, and sometimes a dance-amusements similar to those described in the former part of this volume.

stood; two fragments of sculptured frieze which I had noticed among the bushes strengthened this opinion: of these I have given engravings in my "Lycia." I determined to seek here for more; and on the 7th and 8th of January, with my five men, found in a few hours two other portions of friezes near the same spot. Down the precipice in front of this site lay an avalanche of stones and piles on either side along the edge of the cliffs. These stones differed in size, but might average a ton each; the upper ones, which had last fallen, and had formed the base of the building above, weighed many of them seven or eight tons each, but from their position on the side of the hill they were not difficult to remove.

The 9th of January was Sunday, when all the men after service generally rambled about, and it often happened that it was the most prolific day for discoveries. In endeavouring to catch a scorpion, I crept into a hole among a pile of large blocks of white marble, and to my great joy saw above me, upon the under side of a stone, an Amazon on horseback, and a fine naked figure with a shield, the whole as white and perfect as when first sculptured. Within an hour, with the aid of some of the men, we found sufficient work for the following week, and anxiously did I await the Monday morning, the first mustering of our full complement of men. Five more stones were brought to light on the 10th.

The Harpy Tomb consisted of a square shaft in one block, weighing about eighty tons, its height seventeen feet, placed upon a base rising on one side six feet from the ground, on the other but little above the present level of the earth. Around the sides of the top of the shaft were ranged the basreliefs in white marble, about three feet three inches high; upon these rested a capstone, apparently a series of stones, one projecting over the other; but these are cut in one block, probably fifteen to twenty tons in weight. Within the top of the shaft was hollowed out a chamber, which, with the bas-relief sides, was seven feet six inches high and seven