Fellows, Charles: Travels and researches in Asia Minor, more particularly in the province of Lycia (London, 1852)

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CHAPTER II.

MYSIA.

JOUENEY TO SOMA. — INSCRIPTIONS.—PROCEED TO PEEGAMUS.— ITS
ANTIQUITIES AND SITUATION.—A KHAN.—NATUEAL HISTOEY OP
THE CQUNTEY.—ADEAMYTTIUM.—ASSOS.—ITS AECHITECTUEAL EE-
MAINS. — ITS TOMBS. — MANNEES OP THE PEOPLE. — ALEXANDEIAN
TEOY.—ITS EUINS.—HOT-SPEINOS.—STONE QUAEEY WITH COLUMNS.
—ENAE. — IMPLEMENTS AND CUSTOMS OP THE ANCIENTS EETAINED.
— PLAINS OP TEOY.—AEEIVAL AT THE DAEDANELLES.—ABYDOS AND
ITS ANTIQUITIES.

February 24dh.—Travelling W.1NT.W. from Thyatira, we rode
for several miles over low bog-land, at a foot-pace; then
quitting the level, we gradually ascended to a rich cultivated
country, which became more picturesque as we passed over
a range of limestone hills. At about twenty miles' distance
a splendid and extensive valley opened upon us, in which
appeared, not far off, Kirkagatch, and immediately before
us Bakir.

All the Turkish towns I have seen have, in their style of
building, the appearance of Swiss villages, with the excep-
tion only of the white mosque towers: the towns before us
resembled them in situation also, being at the feet of very
high rocky mountains, and the valley in the front of them
being bounded by another exquisitely beautiful range. I
have nowhere seen valleys so wide, rich, and cultivated as
in this part of Asia Minor. Cotton seems the principal
produce.