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 HISTORY. 347 memorable an episode in that campaign as to have been bruited afar. Frightened into submission by so great a catastrophe, the other towns opened their gates to the Persian conqueror, and engaged to pay tribute. This is the reason why the historian does not name them in his succinct narrative ; but whilst Xanthus was the chief centre of the lower valley of the same name, Pinara and Tlos were undisputed mistresses of the middle valley. The FIG. 248. View of Tlos. FELLOWS, Lycia, Caria, Plate VI. 1 former rose at the head of a gorge on the right bank of an affluent which descends from Anticragos ; whilst on the left bank Tlos, from its lofty and impregnable Acropolis, planted on one of the last counterforts of Massikytos, watched over the plain which it ruled (Fig. 248). Then came Pidnaia and Patara, seated likewise 1 The view is borrowed from Plate XXIII. torn. i. in Rciscn, and is taken from an eminence to the north of the river. Above it is seen the rock that supported the Acropolis ; whilst to the left of the rugged precipitous mass are still descried a few structures, representing the western portion of the city, amidst a tangle of bushes, with the sea in the distance.