Beaufort, Francis: Karamania, or a brief description of the south coast of Asia-Minor and of the remains of antiquity: with plans, views, &c. ; collected during a survey of that coast, under the orders of the lords commissioners of the admiralty, in the years 1811 & 1812 (London, 1817)

266 sarus.

Mount Taurus; and we bathed in it
without feeling any pernicious effects.

A little farther on, we came to a se-
cond river, 270 feet wide, and equally
difficult to enter; but it appeared so im-
probable that two large rivers should pass
through a level plain of sand, and should
yet make their exit so near to each other,
that I concluded they were both mouths
of the Cydnus, and we rowed up about
three miles to ascertain the extent of the
Delta; but mounting there on a high
sand hill, we could perceive no S37mp-
toms of a junction.

At Karadash we afterwards learnt that
they are separate rivers, the easternmost
being the Syhoon, or Syhan, which
passes through the city of Adana; and
as that city retains its former name, it
proves that the river is the antient Sarus.
Ptolemy is, I believe, the only one of
the antient geographers, that expressly
mentions the mouth of this river, which
he places half way between the Cydnus