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LEAVE SIMAUL.
[Chat, xxxvnr.
been a piece of simple hartshorn ; its chief efficacy being in
the piece of gold supplied, of course, by the patient. His
next display was in the numismatic line, when he produced
a Russian silver five-copeck piece and some Byzantine cop-
per coins of the very worst times and execution.
Wednesday, June 7.—Simaul to Selendi, twelve hours.
We started at seven, the morning being cool and agreeable,
and the horses excellent. Leaving the town, we continued
a short way along the plain of Simaul to the cast, crossing
several small streams flowing towards the lake. About a
mile and a half from Simaul the road turns to the south,
and we entered a narrow and well-cultivated plain ; this we
ascended in the same direction, and soon reached the low
hills in advance of the Demirji mountains; here we entered
a wooded valley which narrowed as we advanced towards
the hills connecting tho mountains on the west with Shap
Khana Dagh on the east. The hills consist of thinly-
laminated micaceous sandstone, sometimes breaking into
large flags.
Five miles from Simaul we reached the summit of the
ridge, at its lowest point. Here the barometer stood at
26.229, giving an elevation of 3780 feet above the sea : the
mean of several observations at Simaul gave a height of
2686 feet. Descending from thence we entered a deep val-
ley, watered by a small stream which we followed the whole
day until it mixed its waters with those of the Aineh Chai
near Selendi. Our course became rather more westerly,
and about six miles from the summit, leaving the valley, we
ascended the hills on the right, and after crossing a consi-
derable mass of protruded igneous rocks, soon found our-
selves upon an extensive table-land sloping slightly to the
south, and consisting of alternating hard and soft beds of
volcanic sand and peperitc : further south these beds were
overlaid by a white cretaceous limestone, the surface of
which was in some places covered with boulders of trachyte
and basalt.
At noon I halted amidst an outburst of lava for a meri-
LEAVE SIMAUL.
[Chat, xxxvnr.
been a piece of simple hartshorn ; its chief efficacy being in
the piece of gold supplied, of course, by the patient. His
next display was in the numismatic line, when he produced
a Russian silver five-copeck piece and some Byzantine cop-
per coins of the very worst times and execution.
Wednesday, June 7.—Simaul to Selendi, twelve hours.
We started at seven, the morning being cool and agreeable,
and the horses excellent. Leaving the town, we continued
a short way along the plain of Simaul to the cast, crossing
several small streams flowing towards the lake. About a
mile and a half from Simaul the road turns to the south,
and we entered a narrow and well-cultivated plain ; this we
ascended in the same direction, and soon reached the low
hills in advance of the Demirji mountains; here we entered
a wooded valley which narrowed as we advanced towards
the hills connecting tho mountains on the west with Shap
Khana Dagh on the east. The hills consist of thinly-
laminated micaceous sandstone, sometimes breaking into
large flags.
Five miles from Simaul we reached the summit of the
ridge, at its lowest point. Here the barometer stood at
26.229, giving an elevation of 3780 feet above the sea : the
mean of several observations at Simaul gave a height of
2686 feet. Descending from thence we entered a deep val-
ley, watered by a small stream which we followed the whole
day until it mixed its waters with those of the Aineh Chai
near Selendi. Our course became rather more westerly,
and about six miles from the summit, leaving the valley, we
ascended the hills on the right, and after crossing a consi-
derable mass of protruded igneous rocks, soon found our-
selves upon an extensive table-land sloping slightly to the
south, and consisting of alternating hard and soft beds of
volcanic sand and peperitc : further south these beds were
overlaid by a white cretaceous limestone, the surface of
which was in some places covered with boulders of trachyte
and basalt.
At noon I halted amidst an outburst of lava for a meri-