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ROAD TO SAGALASSUS;
[Chap; xxvmi.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
Ruins of Sagalassus—Theatre—Tombs arid Temple—Leave Isbarta—Buldur—
Gum Tragacaritu—Curious Caves near Buldur—Ancient Dwellings—Lake of
Buldur—Ketziburlu—Deenair, anc. Apamea Cibohis—Ma-ander—Marsyas.
Saturday, October 1.—A lofty range of hills rises imme-
diately to the south of Isbarta, on the southern flank of
which is the modern village of Allahsun, built near the
ruins of the ancient Sagalassus. Starting early from Is-
barta, we ascended a narrow ravine behind the town, and
along the banks of a clear and rapid stream, by which the
town and gardens of Isbarta are at all seasons abundantly
supplied with water. This stream, after flowing eastward
through the plain for a few miles, suddenly turns to the
south, and, after making its way through the mountains of
Pisidia, and being joined by several others, is said to fall
into the sea between Adalia and Aspendus. Trap rocks
protrude through the scaglia limestone in many parts of the
ravine; and a few miles from the town is a remarkable
dome-shaped mass of trachyte, which in cooling has assumed
a very peculiar form, consisting of large concentric masses,
formed of numerous beds of small columns at right angles
to the concentric layers, each of these layers being seve-
ral feet in thickness. Higher up the valley thick beds
of pumiceous tuff are seen resting against the grey or
cream-coloured limestone. It would appear that a groat
valley of elevation, or fissure in the limestone, caused by the
protrusion of the trachytic rocks, had been subsequently
filled with volcanic mud and ashes. Half-way up the
valley we passed the remains of an ancient bridge, and in
two places fragments of columns, probably milestones, with
mutilated inscriptions.
ROAD TO SAGALASSUS;
[Chap; xxvmi.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
Ruins of Sagalassus—Theatre—Tombs arid Temple—Leave Isbarta—Buldur—
Gum Tragacaritu—Curious Caves near Buldur—Ancient Dwellings—Lake of
Buldur—Ketziburlu—Deenair, anc. Apamea Cibohis—Ma-ander—Marsyas.
Saturday, October 1.—A lofty range of hills rises imme-
diately to the south of Isbarta, on the southern flank of
which is the modern village of Allahsun, built near the
ruins of the ancient Sagalassus. Starting early from Is-
barta, we ascended a narrow ravine behind the town, and
along the banks of a clear and rapid stream, by which the
town and gardens of Isbarta are at all seasons abundantly
supplied with water. This stream, after flowing eastward
through the plain for a few miles, suddenly turns to the
south, and, after making its way through the mountains of
Pisidia, and being joined by several others, is said to fall
into the sea between Adalia and Aspendus. Trap rocks
protrude through the scaglia limestone in many parts of the
ravine; and a few miles from the town is a remarkable
dome-shaped mass of trachyte, which in cooling has assumed
a very peculiar form, consisting of large concentric masses,
formed of numerous beds of small columns at right angles
to the concentric layers, each of these layers being seve-
ral feet in thickness. Higher up the valley thick beds
of pumiceous tuff are seen resting against the grey or
cream-coloured limestone. It would appear that a groat
valley of elevation, or fissure in the limestone, caused by the
protrusion of the trachytic rocks, had been subsequently
filled with volcanic mud and ashes. Half-way up the
valley we passed the remains of an ancient bridge, and in
two places fragments of columns, probably milestones, with
mutilated inscriptions.