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 Chap. 22.] ACCOUNT OF COTJNTEIES ETC. 449 Corycos, there being a town port, and cavc"-^ all of the same name. Passing these, we come to the river Calycadnus^, the Promontory of Sarpedon*, the towns of Hulmoe* and Myle, and the Promontory and town of Venus^, at a short distance from the island of Cyprus. On the mainland there are the toAMis of Myanda, Anemurium^, and Coracesium*, and the river Melas^, the ancient boundary of Cilicia. In the interior the places more especially worthy of mention are Anazarbus^", now called Ca?sarca, Augusta, Castabala^ Epiphania^-, formerly called OEniandos, Eleusa'^, Iconium^^, ^ Its ruins are supposed to be those seen by Leake near the island of Ci'ambusa. Here the walls of an ancient city may still be traced, and a mole of unhewn rocks projects from one angle of the fortress about 100 yards across the bay. 2 Strabo describes this cave as a vast hollow of circular form, sur- rounded by a margin of rock on all sides of considerable height ; on descending it, the ground was found full of shrubs, both evergi-eens and cultivated, and in some parts the best satfron was gro■w^l. He also says tliat there was a cave which contained a large spring, from which arose a river of clear water which immediately afterwards sank into the earth and flowed miderground into the sea. It was called the Bitter Water. This cave, so famed in ancient times, does not appear to have been examined by any modern traveller. It was said to have been the bed of the giant Typhon or Typhoeus. ^ Now known as the Ghiuk-Su. of Seleucia. Leake thinks that the modern town of Aghaliman occupies the site of Holmce. ^ Probably the same place as the Aplirodisias mentioned by Livy, Dio- dorus Siculus, and Ptolemy. 7 On the headland now called Cape Anemour, the most southerly part of Asia Minor. Beaufort discovered on the point indications of a con- siderable ancient town. 8 Its sita is now called Alaya or Alanieh. This spot was Strabo's boundary-line between Pamphylia and Cilicia. Some sliglit remains of the ancient town were seen here by Beaufort, but no inscriptions were found. 3 Identified by Beaufort with the modem Manaugat-Su. '0 So called, either from an adjacent mountain of that name, or its founder, Anazarbus. Its later name was Cocsarea ad Ana/.arhum. lis site is called Anawasy or Amnasy, and is said to display considerable reinaiTis of the ancient town. Of Augusta nothing is known": Ptolemy places it in a district called Bi'yehce. ^^ Identified by Ainsworth with the ruins seen at Kara Kaya in Cilicia. ^2 Pompey settled some of the Cilieian pirates here aftt-r his defeat of them. It was thirty miles east of Anazarbus, but its site does not appear to have been identiified. ^^ An island oil' the shore of Cihcia, also called Sebaste. ^* Seme of the MSS. read " Riconiiuu " here. YOL. I. 2 a
 * Supposed to be the same as the modem Lessan-el-Kahpeh.
 * Or Holmi, on the coast of Cilicia Tracheia, a little to the south-west