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Rh in another part of the castle two more, placed on each side of an escutcheon as supporters.

On making this most interesting discovery, I felt, as you may suppose, much surprise that these lions had never, to my knowledge, been noticed by any of the English travellers who had visited Budrum.



The reliefs in the walls of the castle were drawn in situ by Dalton in the last century, and by Captain Devereux a few years back;$147$ and the gentlemen charged with the removal of these pieces of frieze in 1846 were engaged in that operation for a whole month, during which time they must have had the