PAMPILY'LIA., a province of Asia Minor, formerly called Mopsopia according to Pliny (' Hist. Nat.,' v. 26), extended along the coast of the Mediterranean from Olbia to PtolemaTa (a distance of 640 stadia according to Strabo, xiv., p. 067) : it was bounded on the north by Pisidia, on the west by Lycia and the south-western part of Phrygia, and on the cant by Cilicia. Psmphylia was separated from Pisidia by Mount Taurus, and was drained by numerous streams which flowed from the high land of Pisidia. The eastern part of the coast is described by Captain Beaufort as flat, sandy, and dreary, but this remark does not apply to the interior of the country, which, according to Mr. Fellows's account (' Excursion in Asia Minor,' p. 204), Is very beautiful and picturesque. The western part of the coast is surrounded by lofty mountain'', which rise from the sea and attain the greatest height in Mount Solyina on the eastern borders of Lycia. The western part of the country is composed, according to Mr. Fellows, " for thirty or forty miles, of a masa of incrusted or petrified vegetable matter, lying embosomed as it were in the side of the high range of marble mountains which must originally have formed the coast of this country.
As the streams, and indeed largo rivers, which flow from the mountains, enter the country formed of this porous mass, they almost totally dis appear beneath it ; a few little streams only are kept on the surface by artificial means, for the purpose of supplying aqueducts and mills, and being carried along the plain fall over the cliffs into the sea. The course of the rivers beneath these deposited plains is continued to their termination at a short distance out at sea, where the waters of the rivers rise abundantly all along the coast, sometimes at the distance of a quarter of a mile from the shore."
The Pamphylians, according to Herodotus (ell. 91), were descendants of the people who followed the fortunes of Amphiloehus and Calchas after the destruction of Troy. They were subdued by Creesus (Herod., 1. 28), and afterwards formed part of the Persian empire, and supplied Xerxes with thirty ships in his expedition against dreece (Herod., vii. 91). Under the Syrian kings it formed a separate province, including Pisidia; and the same appears to have been the case under the Roman empire, though it seems to have been sometimes united to the province of Galatia. (Tan, Hist,' ii. 9.) Though Pamphylia was of small extent, it contained several towns of considerable importance. Attalia, the modern Adalia, and Perge were visited by St. Paul (Acts, xiii. and xiv). Mr. Fellows, who visited Adele in 1838, speaks of it as a small but clean town, built on a cliff which rises sixty or eighty feet above the sea, and informs us that it contains numerous fragments of ancient buildings, columns, inscrip tions, and statues, which are generally built into the walls of the town with care and some taste. East of Attalla was Perge, in the neighbour hood of which was a celebrated temple of the Pergtean Artemis.
Perge was situated between and upon the sides of two hills, with an extensive valley in front, and backed by the mouutains of the Taurus.
It contains several ancient ruins, of which the principal art—a large theatre, of the width of 330 feet, a stadium, or course for races, aud two or three temples. At Side, beyond the Melas, there are some ruins, among them a large theatre, described both by Captain Beaufort and by Mr. Fellows. There were some other town; of which the site even is in most cases doubtfuL