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SONNISA.
[Chap. xx.
on their heads, collecting and driving in the cattle to
their respective stables. This village, with its lands and
territories, is a chiflik belonging to Osman Pacha, having
been acquired by his father when a Dere Bey, and for
which the inhabitants pay him a certain rent, while the
lands of the neighbouring villages belong to the inhabit-
ants themselves, and for which they only pay the usual
contributions and taxes.
Thursday, August 4. — We started from Sepetli a few
minutes after six, and for upwards of six miles descended
the valley S.E. by E., always keeping near the banks of
the stream ; the valley became gradually much wider, the
hills lower and more cultivated, walnut and plane-trees
flourished in the plain, and by means of careful irrigation
a good crop of Indian corn was ripening on the ground.
At a quarter after eight we left the stream flowing S. by E-
through a narrow opening in the hills into the valley of the
Iris, and crossed in an easterly direction an open corn
country, sloping towards the S.W., and then descended
gently to the village of Sonnisa, situated on the hills which
form the N.W. boundary of the plain, in which the junction
of the Iris and the Lycus takes place two hours to the east
of Sonnisa. There can therefore be no doubt that this
plain is the ancient Phanarcea mentioned by Strabo ; which
is now divided into four districts or cantons, viz. Hcrek,
Tashova, Sonnisa, and Carai-oka, but it generally goes by
the name of Tashova. The course of the Iris as seen from
hence is from S.W. to N.E.
My expectations of finding ruins at Sonnisa were again
disappointed, an old Turkish bath still in use, a mosque of
ancient date almost in ruins, and a nondescript stone build-
ing with fragments of columns lying about it, but evidently
of Turkish construction, constituting the boasted antiquities
of this place; but I was told that there were some in the
valley below, where the united streams of the Lycus and the
Iris flowed out of the plain, which were called Boghaz Hissan
Kaleh; but I feared they would not prove to be Eupatoria or
SONNISA.
[Chap. xx.
on their heads, collecting and driving in the cattle to
their respective stables. This village, with its lands and
territories, is a chiflik belonging to Osman Pacha, having
been acquired by his father when a Dere Bey, and for
which the inhabitants pay him a certain rent, while the
lands of the neighbouring villages belong to the inhabit-
ants themselves, and for which they only pay the usual
contributions and taxes.
Thursday, August 4. — We started from Sepetli a few
minutes after six, and for upwards of six miles descended
the valley S.E. by E., always keeping near the banks of
the stream ; the valley became gradually much wider, the
hills lower and more cultivated, walnut and plane-trees
flourished in the plain, and by means of careful irrigation
a good crop of Indian corn was ripening on the ground.
At a quarter after eight we left the stream flowing S. by E-
through a narrow opening in the hills into the valley of the
Iris, and crossed in an easterly direction an open corn
country, sloping towards the S.W., and then descended
gently to the village of Sonnisa, situated on the hills which
form the N.W. boundary of the plain, in which the junction
of the Iris and the Lycus takes place two hours to the east
of Sonnisa. There can therefore be no doubt that this
plain is the ancient Phanarcea mentioned by Strabo ; which
is now divided into four districts or cantons, viz. Hcrek,
Tashova, Sonnisa, and Carai-oka, but it generally goes by
the name of Tashova. The course of the Iris as seen from
hence is from S.W. to N.E.
My expectations of finding ruins at Sonnisa were again
disappointed, an old Turkish bath still in use, a mosque of
ancient date almost in ruins, and a nondescript stone build-
ing with fragments of columns lying about it, but evidently
of Turkish construction, constituting the boasted antiquities
of this place; but I was told that there were some in the
valley below, where the united streams of the Lycus and the
Iris flowed out of the plain, which were called Boghaz Hissan
Kaleh; but I feared they would not prove to be Eupatoria or