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great ravages 1 since the time of Alexander's passage. 8 At-Ancient
talia, the residence of the Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. and the seat of government, rerna " ls '
is the next place along the coast; it contains about 8000
inhabitants, and the city is beautifully situated at the extremity
of a bay round a small harbour, from which the houses and
gardens rise behind each other like the seats of a theatre. 3
This place probably represents Olbia, 4 being about the same
distance from the sacred promontory. 5 Laara Attalia follows,
with the remnant of an ancient port, 6 and Side, or the Esld
Adalia of the Turks, where there remain a mole, an aqueduct,
and a theatre of 409 feet diameter. 7 A little way inward from
the coast of Pamphylia is Perga, situated, as described by Mela,
between the Oestrus and Catarractes, with a beautiful theatre,
a stadium, two or three temples, and other remains. 8 Farther
north is Isconda, with some Cyclopean and other ruins; and
about 10 miles eastward Pednelissus, now the village of Bol-
cascove, at which are the remains of a grand aqueduct, a
stadium, and a fine theatre almost perfect. 9 According to
Herodotus, 10 who is followed by Strabo, 11 the ancient inhabi
tants were the descendants of some of those who were ship
wrecked on returning from Troy. Pamphylia was at first
called Mopsopia, 12 and the country furnished 30 vessels to
Xerxes.: 13
Westward of Tekeh is the district of Meis, and onward, LimiW
embracing the coast opposite to Rhodes, is Mentesha, in which
is Moolla or Mogolla, the seat of the government of both dis
tricts. The Pashalik thus formed has those of Aidin and
Hamid on the north, that of Tekeh on the east, and the
Mediterranean Sea on the south and west. Nearly in the
centre, and running north, it has the chain of Baba Tagh
(Mount Cadmus) ; to the north-east it has the continuation
1 Beaufort's Karamania, p. 6i-
3 Beaufort's Karamania, p. 123.
6 Strabo, lib. XIV., p. 666.
7 Ibid., p. 139.
9 Ibid., p. 197.
11 Lib. XIV., p. 661.
18 Herod., lib
2 Strabo, lib. XIV., p. 666.
1 Ibid., p. 131.
6 Beaufort, p. 133.
8 Fellowes's Journal, p. 191.
10 Lib. VII., c. xci.
12 Plin., lib. V., c. xxvii.
VII., c. xci.
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