Travels in Lycia, Milyas, and the Cibyratis : in company with the late Rev. E. T. Daniell /

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Charles Fellows, had excited interest in the public mind.These plans were doomed to be sadly defeated.The materials were brought together; but not before the member of the party, on whom the chief part of the duty of working them out was to devolve, had perished through disease con- tracted in their pursuit.The occupations of his companions have been such as to prevent them, even if they had been qualified, from endeavouring to fulfil the original intentions.Unwilling, however, that the fruits of a journey undertaken in earnestness and good faith should be buried, they send forth this imperfect nar- rativea poor substitute for the work pro- jected ; but still, they trust, containing many not unwelcome contributions to ancient and modern geography, and to natural history.The following unpolished chapters have not been written for the sake of making up a book, but because their Authors believed they had new information to communicate.Although the journey was commenced with sanguine expectations of success, the results exceeded the hopes entertained by the travellers ; for no fewer than eighteen ancient cities, the sites of which had been unknown to geographers, were explored and determined, besides many * During the same year with ourselves; the cities named, and several others described in this work, were visited by INTRODUCTION.xi The riches of Lycia as a field of discovery had been first made known by Captain Beaufort, the distinguished hydrographer to the Admiralty, who surveyed the coast, then unexplored, in the years 1811 and 1812, and published a most valuable and masterly account of his researches in ISIS/ 5" Before his time Lycia was a blank upon the map, and its coast-line unsettled, though well described by ancient authors.fTelmessus only had been examined and described, especially Professors Schonbrun and Loew, who have published the in- scriptions they collected in Boeck's Corpus.Of almost all these inscriptions we had also made copies, and of many more.Upwards of two hundred Greek and thirty " Lycian " inscrip- tions were copied during our journey, the greater part of which had never been copied before.No " Lycian " inscription was neglected, and most of those previously published by Sir Charles Fellows were carefully collated and recopied.* " Karamania, or a Brief Description of the South coast of Asia Minor, by Francis Beaufort, F

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