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 HISTORY. 337 The soil of Lycia is frequently agitated by earthquakes, 1 as the ruinous mass of more than one town amply testifies. 2 But for these seismic convulsions tombs and buildings would be intact ; at least, in the vicinity of poor homesteads, whose inmates have no desire of re-using the materials of ancient structures. The thriving little town of Macri is a case in point ; before many years are past the fine remains of ancient Telmessus will have completely disappeared in building new houses for the accom- modation of the citizens of the modern centre. 3 HISTORY. There are good reasons for identifying the Lycians (Av/ou) of classic tradition with the " Louka " of the Egyptian texts, where their name first appears in history, side by side with the Iliouna, the Shardhana, and the Shakalosh, those seafaring people whose repeated onslaughts carried terror into the heart of the Pharaohs of the nineteenth and twentieth dynasties. 4 That which gives a high degree of probability to the above assumption is not dependent upon mere similarity of names, but rests on the fact that the tribes with which the Louka were associated in their campaigns against Egypt would seem to have likewise origin- ally come from Asia Minor, where they have left traces of their transitory passage or long sojourn. There is but one difficulty in the way ; to wit, the witness of Herodotus to the effect that the name the Lycians brought with them to the peninsula, that by which they were still known by their neighbours when he wrote, was not " Lycian," but "Termilae" (Tep/xtXat). 5 As a native of Carian Halicarnassus, whose bargemen certainly frequented the near ports of Lycia, Herodotus could not fail to be well informed. Nor is this a solitary assertion ; other historical 1 PLINY, Hist. Nat., ii. 98. 8 BENNDORF, Reisen, torn. i. p. 50. 8 Reference has already been made (Hist, of Art, torn. v. p. 323, n. i) as to the monuments now disappeared, but which were standing when Huyot visited the ruins near Macri. Those interested in the subject will find the monuments under notice reproduced in a series of drawings covering eighteen sheets in his vol. i. of plates, which he never published. 4 DE ROUGE, " Extrait d'un mdmoire sur les attaques dirigees centre FEgypte par les peuples de la mer," in Revue Arche., N.S. 1867, torn. xvi. pp. 39, 96, 97. 6 Herodotus, i. 173; vii. 92. z