Fellows went himself to Constantinople, explained the matter to the prime minister of the Sultan, and obtained without difficulty tho required firman. After purchasing spades, pick-axes, &c., ho joined the expedition at Rhodes on the 18th of December. Here another difficulty occured. The district of the Pasha extended only to one side of the river Xanthus, and the ruins were on the other aide, in the district of the Pasha of Adalia. The Pasha very kindly however took on himself the responsibility of authorising them to proceed with their work. The Xanthus in the winter season is much wider than the Thames at Richmond, contains a very great volume of water, and is an exceedingly powerful and wild river. They were consequently four days partly rowing and partly dragging with ropes the two boats which contained their stores, though the distance is only nine milee, which they descended iu a boat in three quarters of an hour. They pitched their tents in the plain immediately below the ruins of the ancient city on the 30th of December. After they had been some weeks at work among the ruins, their proceedings were confirmed by a message from the Pasha of Adalia, saying that the Queen of England was good, the Sultan was good, that they were all brothers, and were at liberty to take what they liked. Having, as far as their means allowed them, accomplished their undertaking, they re-embarked, and arrived at Rhodes with their packages ou the 5th of March 1842.
Another expedition was afterwards sent out by the truitmes of the British Museum, also uuder the superinteudeuee of 31r. Fellows, and the collected treasures, consisting of tweuty eases of =rides and cuts, were safely shipped on board her Majesty's ship Medea on the 15th of 31arch 1844, leaving aertn cases of the most unwieldy masses to be afterwards taken on board a larger vessel.
These interesting remains of ancient art are now deposited iu cue of the rooms of the British Museum, which is called the Lycian Saloou, and they are described in the 'Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum.' Mr. Fellows in 1845 received the honour of knighthood for his dis coveries in Lycia, and his services in the removal of the Xauthian Marbles. In the same year he married the only daughter of Francis Mart, Esq. of Nottingham. She died in 1847, and in 1843 he married the relict Of the Into William Knight, Esq., of °attitude, Hertfordshire.
In treuslating and elucidating the inscriptions contained in the first of his Journals, Sir Charles Fellows was as-isted by Mr. James Yates.. in those of the second by the late Mr. Daniel Sharpe, president of the Geological Society. Several of the iuscriptions are in the Lyclan language, which was different from the Greek.
In 1843 Sir Charles Fellows, in consequence of some mis-st dements which had been made. published a pamphlet, entitled ' The Xanthian Marbles: their Acquisition aud Transmission to England,' Svo. He has since published ' An Account of the Ionic Trophy Monument excavated at XAllthlIS; Svo, 1848, and 'coins of Arnica Lycia before the reign of Alexander ; with an Esrey on the Relative Dates of the Lycisn Monuments in the British Museum,' 8vo, 1855. He has also published his two Journals in one volume, in a cheaper form, under the title of Travels and Researches in Asia Minor, particularly in the Province of Lycia,' 12mo, 1852.