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ANCIENT TOMB.
[Chap. xxnr.
No. 12.
[Tomb near Alajali.']
door, on which it was probably intended to lay the body,
for there can be no doubt that it was the tomb of some dis-
tinguished person. Beneath the floor another chamber had
been also hollowed out, into which I descended; this was ex-
tremely small, with one or two niches opening out of it, and
with the appearance of another passage leading from it; but
this last was choked up with rubbish and the dung of birds.
On examining the hills at the back I found that the
tomb was excavated in an insulated rocky pinnacle detached
from the mountain range, and I observed also the com-
mencement of another tomb on the face of the rocks to
the left.
I returned to Alajah in time to get a meridian obser-
vation, and afterwards started in search of other antiqui-
ties, reported to exist on the hills five miles to the S.S.W.,
above Deirmen Kieui. Two miles from Alajah we passed
the ruins of a small church, or mosque, called Tekiyeh
or Tekia, probably the place where Tourncfort halted
in his way from Amasia to Angora. The. building is
ANCIENT TOMB.
[Chap. xxnr.
No. 12.
[Tomb near Alajali.']
door, on which it was probably intended to lay the body,
for there can be no doubt that it was the tomb of some dis-
tinguished person. Beneath the floor another chamber had
been also hollowed out, into which I descended; this was ex-
tremely small, with one or two niches opening out of it, and
with the appearance of another passage leading from it; but
this last was choked up with rubbish and the dung of birds.
On examining the hills at the back I found that the
tomb was excavated in an insulated rocky pinnacle detached
from the mountain range, and I observed also the com-
mencement of another tomb on the face of the rocks to
the left.
I returned to Alajah in time to get a meridian obser-
vation, and afterwards started in search of other antiqui-
ties, reported to exist on the hills five miles to the S.S.W.,
above Deirmen Kieui. Two miles from Alajah we passed
the ruins of a small church, or mosque, called Tekiyeh
or Tekia, probably the place where Tourncfort halted
in his way from Amasia to Angora. The. building is