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

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varied little in either its geological or botanical features.
The hills on the northern side, which rise at times many
hundred feet, are formed of gravel and sand, slightly held
together by partial drippings through lime, which have pro-
duced a cement; this peculiarity has caused the caverns,
which are seen in numbers, and are said to extend far into
the hills. The strata of this formation are for the most
part perfectly horizontal, and appear to have been left by
an earlier bed of the river. These hills, worn and broken
down by time, are now standing cut into sections, and
sloping in every variety of conical shape to the valley.
The Mseander winds on the other side of the plain, about
six or eight miles from the road.

In the evening of Sunday, the 6th of May, I pitched my
tent at Groojak, a town built like Idin upon the slope of the
range of hills. On the other side of the valley I had a dis-
tant view of the ruins of the ancient Antiocheia, hanging
over the river Mosynus, and commanding the entrance of
its valley. On the banks of the Mosynus, higher up the
valley, are also the ruins of the city of Aphrodisius.

During the whole day we have had fruit-trees on either
side; and indeed this is the orchard of Asia Minor, whence
the boasted figs and raisins of Smyrna are chiefly obtained.
Among the flowers there was no species to add to my list
except the hollyhock.

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