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CHAPTER XXIV.

GITLE-HISSA OVASSY.—A LARGE LAKE.—ANCIENT RIVER CALBIS.—EX-
TENSIVE PLAINS.----CARREEUKE.—ITS BAZAAR.—PRICE OP CATTLE.—

CUSTOMS OP THE PEOPLE.—DENIZLEE.—ITS INHABITANTS.—CHANGE
OP LAW.—LAODICEIA.—HIERAPOLIS.—RETURN TO SMYRNA.

May Vdth.—After winding through a series of mountain-
tops, slightly raised above the plain we had traversed, we
suddenly arrived at an extensive and cultivated country,
bounded by Mount Cadmus or Babadah on the north. This
large and highly productive district is called Grule-hissi
Ovassy, or ' Rose-castle Valley,' which is left entirely blank
on all our maps. I already observe much cultivation, seve-
ral rivers, and many villages dotted over the wide extent of
country before us.

Hoomarhoosharry.—We have moved twenty-five miles
northward, and have made but little apparent progress
over this extensive valley, which all bears the same name.
Immediately over the brow of a little hill, on leaving our
tent, we were surprised at finding a village, and before it a
highly picturesque and extensive lake, into which ran out a
promontory, terminated by a craggy rock, upon which ap-
peared to be some ruins of a castle; this may have given
the name to the whole district; the lake is called Grule-hiss<i
Q-ouluh. A few huts at the foot of the castle-rock are called
Olooboonar-cooe, meaning ' Dead-water Village.' Skirting