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hot springs.
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guished, as well as eight or ten steps of a scala near the
right wing. Traces of the vomitoria and other arched
passages are also extant in the left wing, one of which leads
from near the summit of the hill to the diazoma. In a
ravine east of the town are several sarcophagi with their
broken covers lying about, and many sepulchral chambers
excavated in the white rock.
Ascending the valley of the Maeandcr, I visited a hot-
spring (Ilijah) and bath, the building in which it rises being
apparently Turkish. The water was extremely hot, and
bubbled up in the centre, where a kind of mushroom font
has been formed by the sediment. From thence the water
escapes into the Majandcr, but the peasants who cultivate
the intervening ground do not seem to approve of its quality,
as they have erected a wooden channel to carry it clear over
their fields into the river. Having completed my survey
I returned to Sarai Kieui, finding the heat most oppres-
sive, as indeed it had been ever since I had entered the
valley of the Ma3ander. The thermometer in a shaded ve-
randah stood at 81° Fahr. at four p.m.
Friday, October 14.—Sarai Kieui to Kuyuja eight hours
down the valley of the Maeander. The tatar, who was
not satisfied with the horses, insisted on the menzilji, who
vowed and protested to their worth, accompanying us. In
about two miles N.W. we reached the banks of the Maean-
der, and after crossing it continued for some time along
the foot of the barren hills on our right. The tatar's pre-
dictions were here verified, for one of the baggage-horses
fell twice under his load; this so enraged Hafiz, that, rush-
ing upon the poor menzilji, a thin helpless creature, he
dismounted and discharged the full weight of his whip
upon his shoulders: in the midst of his violence one of his
pistols dropped upon the ground, which he immediately
picked up, cocked, and presented at the unfortunate man's
head; his rage was so great that he would probably have
shot him had he not been stopped by one of the servants.
Ten miles below Sarai Kieui the valley is much narrower;
hot springs.
[Chap. xxx.
guished, as well as eight or ten steps of a scala near the
right wing. Traces of the vomitoria and other arched
passages are also extant in the left wing, one of which leads
from near the summit of the hill to the diazoma. In a
ravine east of the town are several sarcophagi with their
broken covers lying about, and many sepulchral chambers
excavated in the white rock.
Ascending the valley of the Maeandcr, I visited a hot-
spring (Ilijah) and bath, the building in which it rises being
apparently Turkish. The water was extremely hot, and
bubbled up in the centre, where a kind of mushroom font
has been formed by the sediment. From thence the water
escapes into the Majandcr, but the peasants who cultivate
the intervening ground do not seem to approve of its quality,
as they have erected a wooden channel to carry it clear over
their fields into the river. Having completed my survey
I returned to Sarai Kieui, finding the heat most oppres-
sive, as indeed it had been ever since I had entered the
valley of the Ma3ander. The thermometer in a shaded ve-
randah stood at 81° Fahr. at four p.m.
Friday, October 14.—Sarai Kieui to Kuyuja eight hours
down the valley of the Maeander. The tatar, who was
not satisfied with the horses, insisted on the menzilji, who
vowed and protested to their worth, accompanying us. In
about two miles N.W. we reached the banks of the Maean-
der, and after crossing it continued for some time along
the foot of the barren hills on our right. The tatar's pre-
dictions were here verified, for one of the baggage-horses
fell twice under his load; this so enraged Hafiz, that, rush-
ing upon the poor menzilji, a thin helpless creature, he
dismounted and discharged the full weight of his whip
upon his shoulders: in the midst of his violence one of his
pistols dropped upon the ground, which he immediately
picked up, cocked, and presented at the unfortunate man's
head; his rage was so great that he would probably have
shot him had he not been stopped by one of the servants.
Ten miles below Sarai Kieui the valley is much narrower;