. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. the products peculiar to Lycia w-e may notice a particularlysoft kind of sponge found at Antiphellus, and a species of chalk pos-sessed of medicinal x^roperties. It also contained springs of naphtha,which attest its volcanic character. § 10. The principal mountains in Lycia were named—Dsedala, onthe border of Caria—Cragus and Anticragus. two loity peaks, sepa-rated from each other by an elevated plain, and terminating in acluster of rugged heights on the western coast, Cragus bein
. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. the products peculiar to Lycia w-e may notice a particularlysoft kind of sponge found at Antiphellus, and a species of chalk pos-sessed of medicinal x^roperties. It also contained springs of naphtha,which attest its volcanic character. § 10. The principal mountains in Lycia were named—Dsedala, onthe border of Caria—Cragus and Anticragus. two loity peaks, sepa-rated from each other by an elevated plain, and terminating in acluster of rugged heights on the western coast, Cragus being the mostsoutherly of the two—Massicytiis, in the centre of the province,running from N. to S. parallel to tlie river Xanthus—and Climax, 126 LYCIA. Book II. on the eastern coast, the name (meaning ladder) being originallyapplied to a mountain which overhung the sea near Phaselis so closely,that at certain times the road at its base was impassable, while themountain w\as surmounted only by a difficult pass : the name wasafterwards extended to the whole ridge between Lycia and I;ock-cut Lvcuin iomb (lexiers Asia MmeureX A portion of this mountain is the Chimaera, which Ctesias describes ashaving a perpetual flame issuing from it: this is no doubt a referenceto the inflammable gas found in that neighbourhood. The ancientpoets ^ frequently refer to this phenomenon, the nature of whichthey did not understand. To the S. of this range was a volcanicmountain named Olympus or Phoenicus. Numerous promontoriesoccur on the coast, the most conspicuous being—Prom. Sacrum, Yedy-Booroon, at the termination of Cragus—and another at the , also called Sacrum, but sometimes Chelidonium, CheUdonia,off which lay a group of five rocky islands of the same name : the 5 UpojTOv fJiei pa Xt/xatpav afxaiixaKdrrjv iKe^evcreUe(^veiJiev rj 5 ao irjv Oelox- yeiO?, oiS aiOpco-ujv,JlpoaOe \eujv, o—iQev de SpaKoov. txecrcri-j 8k \ aTTo-peCovcra Trvpo; /xeVo? al
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