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LEAVE USHAK.
113
CHAPTER VIII.
Plain of Ushak-—Inscriptions at Choreic Kieui—Cross the BanasCliai—x\hat Kieui
An cient Ru ins—Road to Segicler—Conduct of the Peasants—Inscriptions—
Cross extensive plain to Gdbek—Remarkable Scenery.
Leaving Ushak at half-past one, we soon found ourselves
in a rich j plain, in which opium is grown in considerable
quantities, as is indeed the case the whole way to Afiom
Karahissar, the road to which passes a little to the north of
Ahat Kieui. To the north, the plain, about three miles wide,
was bounded [by the range of high hills from which we had
descended, while another low range formed its boundary to
the south. This stream, which we observed on our right,
evidently falls into the Banas Chai, a considerable river,
rising at the south-west foot of Morad Dagh, and which we
crossed four hours further; for we observed it some time
after bending away towards the south-east. This will con-
siderably alter the supposed hydrography of this plain,
which belongs to the water district or basin of the Meander,
and not to that of the Hermus.
Four milesjfrom Ushak, our course still due east, we
passed through the ruined village of Iki Serai, beyond
which was a Turkish burial-ground, containing a few frag-
ments of ancient sculpture. In the village of Choreic Kieui,
seven miles from Ushak, we had the good fortune to discover
in the wall of the mosque two inscriptions/1'' one of which
had the words HTP AIANOIIO AEITilNIIO A12. Of this
city of Trajanopolis, no traces, except its coins, which are
extremely rare, have yet been discovered, and the inscrip-
tion refers to a monument erected in honour of the Em-
vol. i.
* See Appendix, Nos. 22 and 23.
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LEAVE USHAK.
113
CHAPTER VIII.
Plain of Ushak-—Inscriptions at Choreic Kieui—Cross the BanasCliai—x\hat Kieui
An cient Ru ins—Road to Segicler—Conduct of the Peasants—Inscriptions—
Cross extensive plain to Gdbek—Remarkable Scenery.
Leaving Ushak at half-past one, we soon found ourselves
in a rich j plain, in which opium is grown in considerable
quantities, as is indeed the case the whole way to Afiom
Karahissar, the road to which passes a little to the north of
Ahat Kieui. To the north, the plain, about three miles wide,
was bounded [by the range of high hills from which we had
descended, while another low range formed its boundary to
the south. This stream, which we observed on our right,
evidently falls into the Banas Chai, a considerable river,
rising at the south-west foot of Morad Dagh, and which we
crossed four hours further; for we observed it some time
after bending away towards the south-east. This will con-
siderably alter the supposed hydrography of this plain,
which belongs to the water district or basin of the Meander,
and not to that of the Hermus.
Four milesjfrom Ushak, our course still due east, we
passed through the ruined village of Iki Serai, beyond
which was a Turkish burial-ground, containing a few frag-
ments of ancient sculpture. In the village of Choreic Kieui,
seven miles from Ushak, we had the good fortune to discover
in the wall of the mosque two inscriptions/1'' one of which
had the words HTP AIANOIIO AEITilNIIO A12. Of this
city of Trajanopolis, no traces, except its coins, which are
extremely rare, have yet been discovered, and the inscrip-
tion refers to a monument erected in honour of the Em-
vol. i.
* See Appendix, Nos. 22 and 23.
i