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INCONVENIENCE POE WANT OP COEN.—ANCIENT TOMBS.—CUSTOMS OF

THE PEOPLE.—PECULIAE AECHITECTUEE.----DISCOVEEY OP CALYNDA.

—NATIJEAL HISTOBY.—TELMESSUS.—TOMBS, WOBKS OP AET.— PE-
CULIAE CLIMATE.—HOOZUMLEE.—ITS INHABITANTS.—STATE OP THE
AETS AMONG THE ANCIENT LYCIANS.—DISCOVEEY OP CADYANDA —
ITS EUINS.—VALLEY OP THE XANTHUS.—HOOEAHN,—ANCIENT TOMBS
AND EUINS OP AEAXA.

April 2nd.—But little barley is grown in this district, and
none is now to be obtained at any price for our cavalcade of
horses ; they have obstinately rejected maize, which is the
only corn for man or horse hereabouts, and the grass is not
sufficiently grown for the cattle to graze. The consequence
is, that we are able only to move forward on our fainting
nags three or four hours a day : even at this slow pace they
fall occasionally, injuring the baggage and causing delay;
this inconvenience has just afforded me some amusement,
from witnessing the simple habits of the people. After as-
cending a range of mountains, and descending by a steep
track through a highly picturesque pass, we arrived, in four
hours from Dollomon, at a beautiful ravine in the moun-
tains, where we found a few wicker huts, and near them for
the first time we pitched our tents, in order to depasture
the horses on the scanty herbage around us. The huts were
searched for barley, as had been every tent on the way;
here, in one alone, we found some, which the owner did not



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