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CAM A.
collected the waters of tlie Mosynus, we found it varied with
considerable hills and very deeply cut dells, formed by the
numerous streams. These streams have their mills with
overshot wheels, and are shadowed by the enormous arms
of the spreading plane-trees: around them is a tract of land
generally well cultivated, the whole forming a pleasing va-
riety in this too neglected district. We arrived at Aphro-
disias before noon, approaching the city through the district
of its tombs : sarcophagi marked the road for the last mile;
and as we entered the gate, so much of interest met the eye
that we determined to remain here some days.
The present state of the village is most ruinous; twenty
only out of about a hundred huts are occupied, all the others
being inhabited by owls; the sociable crane seems to have
deserted the bundle of sticks piled upon the ruined houses,
and a few solitary birds stand, like monuments of melan-
choly, on the chimneys of their protectors' huts. I hear that
there are still two hundred people, including women and
children, in the village and neighbourhood, but I have seen
scarcely an individual amongst the masses of ruins forming
the streets.
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CAM A.
collected the waters of tlie Mosynus, we found it varied with
considerable hills and very deeply cut dells, formed by the
numerous streams. These streams have their mills with
overshot wheels, and are shadowed by the enormous arms
of the spreading plane-trees: around them is a tract of land
generally well cultivated, the whole forming a pleasing va-
riety in this too neglected district. We arrived at Aphro-
disias before noon, approaching the city through the district
of its tombs : sarcophagi marked the road for the last mile;
and as we entered the gate, so much of interest met the eye
that we determined to remain here some days.
The present state of the village is most ruinous; twenty
only out of about a hundred huts are occupied, all the others
being inhabited by owls; the sociable crane seems to have
deserted the bundle of sticks piled upon the ruined houses,
and a few solitary birds stand, like monuments of melan-
choly, on the chimneys of their protectors' huts. I hear that
there are still two hundred people, including women and
children, in the village and neighbourhood, but I have seen
scarcely an individual amongst the masses of ruins forming
the streets.
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«ftfcj
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