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leave azani.
[Chap. vii.
town, one of which appears to be an interesting fragment of
a letter from Nero, dated Rome, which, from its resemblance
to those upon the walls of the great temple, probably formed
a part of the public documents, which, according to the cus-
tom of the times, were engraved for the benefit of the public
upon that building. Several of these inscriptions are given
in the Appendix*
Sunday, April 3.—We started from Azani for Ghiediz,
said to be eight hours, which, according to the usual com-
putation, would give twenty-two or twenty-four miles. It
appears, however, after carefully laying down the route ac-
cording to the plan which I have already explained, that on
the map there is only a distance of fourteen miles in a
straight line S.S.W. This discrepancy will account for the
extreme inaccuracy of the maps, and the difficulty, and some-
times even impossibility, of reconciling the positions of
different towns upon them, when they have been constructed
upon such vague and uncertain data as Turkish computa-
tion by hours.
We left Azani soon after 7 a.m., and for nearly two miles
proceeded in a S. by W. direction along the plain, having the
Rhyndacus on our right, flowing through a narrow and steep
gorge in the calcareous rock. About a mile and a half from
the town I copied the inscription No. 20, on a broken co-
lumn. On leaving the plain, our road led for several miles
over low undulating hills, and a bleak and barren country,
enlivened only by a few scattered juniper bushes and dwarf
spreading cypresses. Five miles from Azani we reached
an elevated plain, on which many patches of snow were
still lying, and crossed several small streams flowing to
the right, and presently a much larger one, evidently the
main branch of the Rhyndacus), flowing N.W. by W. Large
herds of small compact cattle were grazing on this elevated
ground, which, when three or four years old, fetch from
140 to 160 piastres, about thirty shillings at the then rate
of exchange.
* See Appendix, Nos, 8 to 19.
leave azani.
[Chap. vii.
town, one of which appears to be an interesting fragment of
a letter from Nero, dated Rome, which, from its resemblance
to those upon the walls of the great temple, probably formed
a part of the public documents, which, according to the cus-
tom of the times, were engraved for the benefit of the public
upon that building. Several of these inscriptions are given
in the Appendix*
Sunday, April 3.—We started from Azani for Ghiediz,
said to be eight hours, which, according to the usual com-
putation, would give twenty-two or twenty-four miles. It
appears, however, after carefully laying down the route ac-
cording to the plan which I have already explained, that on
the map there is only a distance of fourteen miles in a
straight line S.S.W. This discrepancy will account for the
extreme inaccuracy of the maps, and the difficulty, and some-
times even impossibility, of reconciling the positions of
different towns upon them, when they have been constructed
upon such vague and uncertain data as Turkish computa-
tion by hours.
We left Azani soon after 7 a.m., and for nearly two miles
proceeded in a S. by W. direction along the plain, having the
Rhyndacus on our right, flowing through a narrow and steep
gorge in the calcareous rock. About a mile and a half from
the town I copied the inscription No. 20, on a broken co-
lumn. On leaving the plain, our road led for several miles
over low undulating hills, and a bleak and barren country,
enlivened only by a few scattered juniper bushes and dwarf
spreading cypresses. Five miles from Azani we reached
an elevated plain, on which many patches of snow were
still lying, and crossed several small streams flowing to
the right, and presently a much larger one, evidently the
main branch of the Rhyndacus), flowing N.W. by W. Large
herds of small compact cattle were grazing on this elevated
ground, which, when three or four years old, fetch from
140 to 160 piastres, about thirty shillings at the then rate
of exchange.
* See Appendix, Nos, 8 to 19.