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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.4719#0143
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town my servant found that his greatcoat had fallen from
his horse; riding back for two miles, he saw a poor man
bringing wood and charcoal from the hills upon asses. On
asking him if he had seen the coat, he said that he had
found it, and had taken it to a water-mill on the roadside,
having shown it to all the persons he met, that they might
assist in finding its owner; on offering him money, he re-
fused it, saying with great simplicity that the coat was not
his, and that it was quite safe with the miller. My servant
then rode to the house of the miller, who immediately gave
it up, he also refusing to receive any reward, and saying
that he should have hung it up at the door, had he not been
about to go down to the town. The honesty perhaps may
not be surprising, but the refusal of money is certainly a
trait of character which has not been assigned to the Turks.
The road to Alaysoon was most singular. For eight or
nine miles it lay up the bed of the river, on each side of
which the mountains rose abruptly. The ravine was at first
monotonous, but afterwards assumed a bold and highly
interesting character: the rocks are generally of marble, and
some of common limestone, with veins of marble running
through them in all directions ; the whole of the mountains
are stratified, and thrown about in the wildest manner. Eut
the most singular features in this district are the mountains
of volcanic dust, which I saw at ten miles' distance, looking
as if they were smoking; this appearance being caused by
the sand, which with every little wind is blown into clouds,
and carried into the air and along the valleys. Out of these
hills rise jagged points of marble rocks, each of which forms
a nucleus of the drifting sand. This dust occasionally
almost blinded us; and I observe that the people ride with
their faces covered with handkerchiefs, or wait till the cloud
of dust has passed. The whole of this light sand or dust is
tufa, the dust of the pumice-stone, and a volcanic produc-
tion ; the decomposed lime has in many parts mixed with
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PISIDIA.
town my servant found that his greatcoat had fallen from
his horse; riding back for two miles, he saw a poor man
bringing wood and charcoal from the hills upon asses. On
asking him if he had seen the coat, he said that he had
found it, and had taken it to a water-mill on the roadside,
having shown it to all the persons he met, that they might
assist in finding its owner; on offering him money, he re-
fused it, saying with great simplicity that the coat was not
his, and that it was quite safe with the miller. My servant
then rode to the house of the miller, who immediately gave
it up, he also refusing to receive any reward, and saying
that he should have hung it up at the door, had he not been
about to go down to the town. The honesty perhaps may
not be surprising, but the refusal of money is certainly a
trait of character which has not been assigned to the Turks.
The road to Alaysoon was most singular. For eight or
nine miles it lay up the bed of the river, on each side of
which the mountains rose abruptly. The ravine was at first
monotonous, but afterwards assumed a bold and highly
interesting character: the rocks are generally of marble, and
some of common limestone, with veins of marble running
through them in all directions ; the whole of the mountains
are stratified, and thrown about in the wildest manner. Eut
the most singular features in this district are the mountains
of volcanic dust, which I saw at ten miles' distance, looking
as if they were smoking; this appearance being caused by
the sand, which with every little wind is blown into clouds,
and carried into the air and along the valleys. Out of these
hills rise jagged points of marble rocks, each of which forms
a nucleus of the drifting sand. This dust occasionally
almost blinded us; and I observe that the people ride with
their faces covered with handkerchiefs, or wait till the cloud
of dust has passed. The whole of this light sand or dust is
tufa, the dust of the pumice-stone, and a volcanic produc-
tion ; the decomposed lime has in many parts mixed with
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