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CHAPTER VII.
PAMPHYLIA. .
AEEIVAL AT B00JAK.—YISIT TO THE ETJINS OP A SPLENDID CITY,
PEOBABLY SELGE.—BEEEMAEGY.—DESCENT OP THE TAUETTS EANGE.-—
PLAINS OP PAMPHYLIA.—ADALIA.—YISIT TO THE PASHA.—BOTANY.—
EXCUESION TO ANCIENT CITIES, PEOBABLY PEBGE, ISIONDA, PED-
NELISSITS, SYLLITTM, SIDE, AND ASPENDTJS.—EETUEN TO ADALIA.—
DOMESTIC MANNERS OP A GEEEK FAMILY.—DEPAETUEE.
After travelling twenty-four miles to the south-east we
arrived at the village of Boojak. Leaving here my baggage,
I started with a guide to visit some extensive ruins, which I
heard lay about ten miles toward the north-east. The road
was highly picturesque, traversing pine-forests, and ascend-
ing the whole way, commanded views of various chains of
mountains and their cultivated valleys. After passing a
rocky plain we entered a wood or wilderness of shrubs, and
suddenly came to a cliff of the greatest perpendicular height
that I had ever looked over; no description can give an
idea of the place. I was at the end of a ridge of mountains
of white marble, which terminate abruptly in a deep and
rich valley, with villages, of which Davre appeared the
largest, and having only one side accessible, the other three
rising perpendicularly, perhaps a thousand feet.
Upon this promontory stood one of the finest cities that
probably ever existed, now presenting magnificent wrecks of
grandeur. I rode for at least three miles through a part of
CHAPTER VII.
PAMPHYLIA. .
AEEIVAL AT B00JAK.—YISIT TO THE ETJINS OP A SPLENDID CITY,
PEOBABLY SELGE.—BEEEMAEGY.—DESCENT OP THE TAUETTS EANGE.-—
PLAINS OP PAMPHYLIA.—ADALIA.—YISIT TO THE PASHA.—BOTANY.—
EXCUESION TO ANCIENT CITIES, PEOBABLY PEBGE, ISIONDA, PED-
NELISSITS, SYLLITTM, SIDE, AND ASPENDTJS.—EETUEN TO ADALIA.—
DOMESTIC MANNERS OP A GEEEK FAMILY.—DEPAETUEE.
After travelling twenty-four miles to the south-east we
arrived at the village of Boojak. Leaving here my baggage,
I started with a guide to visit some extensive ruins, which I
heard lay about ten miles toward the north-east. The road
was highly picturesque, traversing pine-forests, and ascend-
ing the whole way, commanded views of various chains of
mountains and their cultivated valleys. After passing a
rocky plain we entered a wood or wilderness of shrubs, and
suddenly came to a cliff of the greatest perpendicular height
that I had ever looked over; no description can give an
idea of the place. I was at the end of a ridge of mountains
of white marble, which terminate abruptly in a deep and
rich valley, with villages, of which Davre appeared the
largest, and having only one side accessible, the other three
rising perpendicularly, perhaps a thousand feet.
Upon this promontory stood one of the finest cities that
probably ever existed, now presenting magnificent wrecks of
grandeur. I rode for at least three miles through a part of