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MOOLAH.
283
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attracted by some square holes high up in the cliffs, and
spent several hours in exploring what we found to be
ancient tombs, cut within the rocks. Prom their form and
construction, they must have been the work of the early
Greeks, and the repositories of the dead of a considerable
city; I think we examined above a hundred. The name of
the ancient city, I believe, has never been found on inscrip-
tions, but it is supposed to have been Alinda. My inquiry
here for coins was answered most liberally, and I have added
above thirty to my collection; but among these I find none
of the town of Alinda, some of them belonging to the cities
on the coast, and one to Samos, together with many Roman
and Byzantine. All coins from the neighbourhood naturally
find their way to the chief commercial towns. At Mellassa
they are quite an article of merchandize with the Jews, and
for coins which I bought for a piaster at other places, I was
there asked from fifty to one hundred piasters. At present
the coins have not been carried far from the places in which
they were found, and, like fossils in geology, they may per-
haps be useful in indicating a date and name to their differ-
ent localities.
We yesterday travelled about twenty miles, gradually
ascending the valley which gives source to the river Cheena;
in its course towards the town of that name it passes the
ancient site of Lekena, on the opposite side of the valley to
Bozuke, and a little to the north-east of Acruicooe, the
village I passed on my former tour. At a few miles before
arriving at Moolah, we left the valley in which the Cheena
takes its rise, and, crossing a small range of mountains,
reached the large swampy plain before this town. Today we
start for Hoolah, but, as the distance is only twelve miles,
we spend the forenoon here, and shall ride over the moun-
tains after an early dinner.
Our room has this morning been quite a busy scene, with
Turks bringing in coins and fancied treasures, some of the
283
•Option I
*»en of the
^thinGreekan^
and is
""wngftn
Nikkei
the fonn of
•iocmneL:
curwwtkiiij(|
Estill retain'
hecoontn.
*
inuneoDEv
; the whole oftki
the rains n
r.ve'
i
On reaching tkj
ad we were
uke, not two 1*
be thunder rofc
afternoon.
• (Ml
- ton 4
hmiuorata$
en the ate of a*
morion oM^
in to the Dirt*
>ld matemli
under. I-
•ekof*-
attracted by some square holes high up in the cliffs, and
spent several hours in exploring what we found to be
ancient tombs, cut within the rocks. Prom their form and
construction, they must have been the work of the early
Greeks, and the repositories of the dead of a considerable
city; I think we examined above a hundred. The name of
the ancient city, I believe, has never been found on inscrip-
tions, but it is supposed to have been Alinda. My inquiry
here for coins was answered most liberally, and I have added
above thirty to my collection; but among these I find none
of the town of Alinda, some of them belonging to the cities
on the coast, and one to Samos, together with many Roman
and Byzantine. All coins from the neighbourhood naturally
find their way to the chief commercial towns. At Mellassa
they are quite an article of merchandize with the Jews, and
for coins which I bought for a piaster at other places, I was
there asked from fifty to one hundred piasters. At present
the coins have not been carried far from the places in which
they were found, and, like fossils in geology, they may per-
haps be useful in indicating a date and name to their differ-
ent localities.
We yesterday travelled about twenty miles, gradually
ascending the valley which gives source to the river Cheena;
in its course towards the town of that name it passes the
ancient site of Lekena, on the opposite side of the valley to
Bozuke, and a little to the north-east of Acruicooe, the
village I passed on my former tour. At a few miles before
arriving at Moolah, we left the valley in which the Cheena
takes its rise, and, crossing a small range of mountains,
reached the large swampy plain before this town. Today we
start for Hoolah, but, as the distance is only twelve miles,
we spend the forenoon here, and shall ride over the moun-
tains after an early dinner.
Our room has this morning been quite a busy scene, with
Turks bringing in coins and fancied treasures, some of the