DOI article:
Sterrett, John R. Sitlington: The Wolfe expedition to Asia Minor
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THE WOLFE EXPEDITION
We continued to follow along the western side, and in half an hour
Boghaz Su has returned to the western side, and we find another
Diiden. Half an hour south of this point we find a Dtiden, and
five minutes below it still another immense one, down which the
water roars and thunders. The water is much too deep to ford, and
we climb around it on the mountain side for one-quarter of an hour.
Seven minutes below the last large Dtiden is another one, and five
minutes below it there is an exceedingly large one. This is the last.
Dtiden, and virtually the end of the Boghaz Su. Below this point the
land rises, and part of the drain water flows north to this large
Dtiden. The Boghaz Su does not flow into the Koghade G61
except for six months during the winter and spring, when the water
is abundant enough to force itself over the slightly rising land south
of here into the Koghade G61 [see Ritter, Klein-Asien, II. p. 567].
This takes place on the eastern side of the valley, as the western side
is much too high. I have been explicit in enumerating the Diidens,
in order to show what becomes of the large river known as the Bo-
ghaz Su. This sudden disappearing of streams is a phenomenon
common throughout Asia Minor, wherever the water cannot find a
natural outlet to the sea, but the Dtidens of the Boghaz Su are prob-
ably the most important of them all [see Ritter, Klein-Asien, II.
pp. 480 and 568; Hamilton, Researches, etc., I. p. 482]. Half an
hour south of this last Dtiden we reach a Tchai, which comes from
the lateral gorge of Gioidere and flows southeast to Koghade G61,
which seems to be the name of the lake and not Gjodeh or Godeh
G61, as given by Schonborn [Ritter, Klein-Asien, II. p. 567]. We
encamp here among the tents and threshing-floors of the villagers of
Gioidere, the village being deserted at this season of the year.
September 2. From the threshing-floors of Gioidere to Kodja
Assar, 5 h. 32 m. We head south through a wooded country which
descends very slightly. In half an hour we reach the bed of a dry
Tchai, which carries off the drain water during the wet months and
which, flowing south-southwest, must find an exit through a pre-
cipitous boghaz to the Ak Su [see Ritter, Klein-Asien, II. p. 566].
One hour out from camp we begin to ascend the mountains, and
in one-quarter of an hour Koghade G61 lies below us to our left.
The summit of the mountain is reached in half an hour, whence a
rough and tortuous descent south of one hour brings us to Gok
We continued to follow along the western side, and in half an hour
Boghaz Su has returned to the western side, and we find another
Diiden. Half an hour south of this point we find a Dtiden, and
five minutes below it still another immense one, down which the
water roars and thunders. The water is much too deep to ford, and
we climb around it on the mountain side for one-quarter of an hour.
Seven minutes below the last large Dtiden is another one, and five
minutes below it there is an exceedingly large one. This is the last.
Dtiden, and virtually the end of the Boghaz Su. Below this point the
land rises, and part of the drain water flows north to this large
Dtiden. The Boghaz Su does not flow into the Koghade G61
except for six months during the winter and spring, when the water
is abundant enough to force itself over the slightly rising land south
of here into the Koghade G61 [see Ritter, Klein-Asien, II. p. 567].
This takes place on the eastern side of the valley, as the western side
is much too high. I have been explicit in enumerating the Diidens,
in order to show what becomes of the large river known as the Bo-
ghaz Su. This sudden disappearing of streams is a phenomenon
common throughout Asia Minor, wherever the water cannot find a
natural outlet to the sea, but the Dtidens of the Boghaz Su are prob-
ably the most important of them all [see Ritter, Klein-Asien, II.
pp. 480 and 568; Hamilton, Researches, etc., I. p. 482]. Half an
hour south of this last Dtiden we reach a Tchai, which comes from
the lateral gorge of Gioidere and flows southeast to Koghade G61,
which seems to be the name of the lake and not Gjodeh or Godeh
G61, as given by Schonborn [Ritter, Klein-Asien, II. p. 567]. We
encamp here among the tents and threshing-floors of the villagers of
Gioidere, the village being deserted at this season of the year.
September 2. From the threshing-floors of Gioidere to Kodja
Assar, 5 h. 32 m. We head south through a wooded country which
descends very slightly. In half an hour we reach the bed of a dry
Tchai, which carries off the drain water during the wet months and
which, flowing south-southwest, must find an exit through a pre-
cipitous boghaz to the Ak Su [see Ritter, Klein-Asien, II. p. 566].
One hour out from camp we begin to ascend the mountains, and
in one-quarter of an hour Koghade G61 lies below us to our left.
The summit of the mountain is reached in half an hour, whence a
rough and tortuous descent south of one hour brings us to Gok