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MOUNTAIN RANGE.
[Chap. xvi.
Xenophon, who describes them as dwelling in detached and
insulated huts throughout the country. He also calls them
barbarous and quarrelsome; and it is only within a few
years that the feuds and disputes of neighbouring districts
have been put down by the energetic interference of the
government.
Wednesday, July 13.—As I was anxious to visit Cape
Yasoun or Jasonium, on which ruins were said to exist, I
gave up the mountain road and took advantage of ascampa-
via belonging to Osman Pacha, which was going to Unieh,
and proceeded to Fatsah by water. The rcis, or captain,
agreed to take me with my baggage and servants for 100
piastres; the distance by land being twelve hours, and the
usual hire of boats being at the rate of a piastre per hour
for each horse which the party would require on shore.
Macdonald Kinneir succeeded in crossing these mountains,
which separate the territory of the Tibareni from that of
the Chalybes; the highest range terminates in Cape Jaso-
nium, and probably forms the barrier alluded to by lleca-
tomnus, in the speech quoted by Xenophon,* as forming the
boundary of Paphlagonia, beyond which were the plains of
the Thermodon and the Iris ; for he says that, even if the
Greeks succeeded in forcing this difficult mountain-pass,
they would still have to cross the Thermodon, the Iris, and
the Halys, from which it is evident that the limits of
Paphlagonia were to the east of those rivers. Xenophon
had also said just before, that the Greeks in foraging pro-
cured some of their provisions from Paphlagonia, and the
rest from the country of the Cotyorans.
I embarked at half-past six, and in half an hour passed
Buztik Kaleh, beyond which the coast trends away to the
west, forming the bay of Pershembah, in which many Turkish
houses were scattered amidst the woods and on the beach.
Some writers have supposed that Cotyora was situated in
this bay, which is certainly more sheltered than Ordou, and
its distance from the river Melanthius agrees better with the
* Anal), v. c. 5.
MOUNTAIN RANGE.
[Chap. xvi.
Xenophon, who describes them as dwelling in detached and
insulated huts throughout the country. He also calls them
barbarous and quarrelsome; and it is only within a few
years that the feuds and disputes of neighbouring districts
have been put down by the energetic interference of the
government.
Wednesday, July 13.—As I was anxious to visit Cape
Yasoun or Jasonium, on which ruins were said to exist, I
gave up the mountain road and took advantage of ascampa-
via belonging to Osman Pacha, which was going to Unieh,
and proceeded to Fatsah by water. The rcis, or captain,
agreed to take me with my baggage and servants for 100
piastres; the distance by land being twelve hours, and the
usual hire of boats being at the rate of a piastre per hour
for each horse which the party would require on shore.
Macdonald Kinneir succeeded in crossing these mountains,
which separate the territory of the Tibareni from that of
the Chalybes; the highest range terminates in Cape Jaso-
nium, and probably forms the barrier alluded to by lleca-
tomnus, in the speech quoted by Xenophon,* as forming the
boundary of Paphlagonia, beyond which were the plains of
the Thermodon and the Iris ; for he says that, even if the
Greeks succeeded in forcing this difficult mountain-pass,
they would still have to cross the Thermodon, the Iris, and
the Halys, from which it is evident that the limits of
Paphlagonia were to the east of those rivers. Xenophon
had also said just before, that the Greeks in foraging pro-
cured some of their provisions from Paphlagonia, and the
rest from the country of the Cotyorans.
I embarked at half-past six, and in half an hour passed
Buztik Kaleh, beyond which the coast trends away to the
west, forming the bay of Pershembah, in which many Turkish
houses were scattered amidst the woods and on the beach.
Some writers have supposed that Cotyora was situated in
this bay, which is certainly more sheltered than Ordou, and
its distance from the river Melanthius agrees better with the
* Anal), v. c. 5.