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PHRYGIA.
principal material used was lava or scoria, of nearly every
colour; many of the spongy holes being filled with a white
crystallized substance similar to that which I have seen in
the basaltic columns of Staffa.
March 22nd.—On leaving the town, before we began the
ascent of the mountains to the south, we passed a pond or
small lake, the temperature of which was shown by steam
rising from the water; it was supplied by some hot-springs
which rise at the foot of the cliff. After ascending for a
quarter of an hour, I looked back to the valley we had left,
surrounded by its little range of low hills, and saw over
them to the north-west Olympus covered with snow, at a
distance in a straight line of at least ninety miles; but the
elevation here is very great. "We continued the ascent for
an hour, and I fully expected to find myself on a barren
summit, and then to descend into more eastern climes ; but
what was my surprise, on reaching the top, at seeing before
me meadows and cultivated land for twenty miles, and a
series of gentle hills and undulations beyond, still bound-
ing the view ! These table-lands are a peculiarity in this
country, and materially affect its climate. Yesterday I
rode through a garden of flowers, today I have in forty miles
seen nothing in bloom except the yellow crocus. The
country is some weeks later than that of my yesterday's
ride, and many weeks later than that of the north-western
parts over which I have lately travelled. In ascending, we
passed up a craggy marble steep, down which had rolled
many rounded pieces of lava and blocks of red marble of the
kind so frequently seen in combination with the white marble,
and came to a small hill of the serpentine schist, like that
near Enae. For fifteen miles we rode over this table-land,
almost the whole being in pasture, and here, in this wild
and high country found a burial-ground, consisting only
of a few graves, but several of them marked by columns or
cornices, and one by a richly carved pedestal or altar.
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MnJis
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PHRYGIA.
principal material used was lava or scoria, of nearly every
colour; many of the spongy holes being filled with a white
crystallized substance similar to that which I have seen in
the basaltic columns of Staffa.
March 22nd.—On leaving the town, before we began the
ascent of the mountains to the south, we passed a pond or
small lake, the temperature of which was shown by steam
rising from the water; it was supplied by some hot-springs
which rise at the foot of the cliff. After ascending for a
quarter of an hour, I looked back to the valley we had left,
surrounded by its little range of low hills, and saw over
them to the north-west Olympus covered with snow, at a
distance in a straight line of at least ninety miles; but the
elevation here is very great. "We continued the ascent for
an hour, and I fully expected to find myself on a barren
summit, and then to descend into more eastern climes ; but
what was my surprise, on reaching the top, at seeing before
me meadows and cultivated land for twenty miles, and a
series of gentle hills and undulations beyond, still bound-
ing the view ! These table-lands are a peculiarity in this
country, and materially affect its climate. Yesterday I
rode through a garden of flowers, today I have in forty miles
seen nothing in bloom except the yellow crocus. The
country is some weeks later than that of my yesterday's
ride, and many weeks later than that of the north-western
parts over which I have lately travelled. In ascending, we
passed up a craggy marble steep, down which had rolled
many rounded pieces of lava and blocks of red marble of the
kind so frequently seen in combination with the white marble,
and came to a small hill of the serpentine schist, like that
near Enae. For fifteen miles we rode over this table-land,
almost the whole being in pasture, and here, in this wild
and high country found a burial-ground, consisting only
of a few graves, but several of them marked by columns or
cornices, and one by a richly carved pedestal or altar.
C
,
kin i
MnJis
*totfc,
but