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rial proconsul, but without the name of the city. A meri-
dian observation gave me the latitude of Ishekli as 383
17' 30". I was told that, atone of the neighbouring villages
called Aivan, large blocks and stones similar to those which
I saw here had been discovered, and taken away. In the
evening I obtained from a Greek pedlar some good coins of
Eucarpia, Apamea, Attalia, and Pcrga; and I also purchased
a pretty marble head of a young Bacchante, which had been
dug up in a neighbouring vineyard. We were kept in
a constant state of anxiety in consequence of the plague
having lately made its appearance throughout the sur-
rounding country; and in Iskekli itself there were two or
three deaths daily from the same cause.
Thursday, June 22.—At half-past six we started for
Sandukli, nine hours. Quitting- the valley of the Maiander,
we proceeded N. and N. by E. for several miles, having the
pointed rock above the town called Ishekli Dagh close on
our right hand After crossing a low ridge of hills, which
consisted of alternating beds of red and white calcareous
conglomerate, resting horizontally against highly-inclined
beds of talcose schist and crystalline limestone, we descended
into a deep and wooded valley between high hills, at the bot-
tom of which a small stream, now almost dry, flowed to the
south on our left hand. It enters the plain of Ishekli a few
miles to the west of that place, and is in winter a consider-
able torrent. I had crossed its dry bed the day before yester-
day, between Sokma Kieui and Onier Kieui, about five miles
S.W. of Ishekli. It is called by the Turks the Sandukli Chai,
because it takes its rise a few miles beyond that place, and
flows through the plain of that name. Were it always full
of water it would certainly be the longest and most distant
source of the Maeander, but it yields in importance to those
at Deenair and at Ishekli; and whether it represents the
ancient Orgas, or O brim as, or Glaucus, it is an unim-
portant stream. I am rather inclined to consider it the
Obrimas, as its sources near Sandukli would then fall in
the line of Manlius's march from Sagalassus into the
SANDUKLI CHAI.
167
rial proconsul, but without the name of the city. A meri-
dian observation gave me the latitude of Ishekli as 383
17' 30". I was told that, atone of the neighbouring villages
called Aivan, large blocks and stones similar to those which
I saw here had been discovered, and taken away. In the
evening I obtained from a Greek pedlar some good coins of
Eucarpia, Apamea, Attalia, and Pcrga; and I also purchased
a pretty marble head of a young Bacchante, which had been
dug up in a neighbouring vineyard. We were kept in
a constant state of anxiety in consequence of the plague
having lately made its appearance throughout the sur-
rounding country; and in Iskekli itself there were two or
three deaths daily from the same cause.
Thursday, June 22.—At half-past six we started for
Sandukli, nine hours. Quitting- the valley of the Maiander,
we proceeded N. and N. by E. for several miles, having the
pointed rock above the town called Ishekli Dagh close on
our right hand After crossing a low ridge of hills, which
consisted of alternating beds of red and white calcareous
conglomerate, resting horizontally against highly-inclined
beds of talcose schist and crystalline limestone, we descended
into a deep and wooded valley between high hills, at the bot-
tom of which a small stream, now almost dry, flowed to the
south on our left hand. It enters the plain of Ishekli a few
miles to the west of that place, and is in winter a consider-
able torrent. I had crossed its dry bed the day before yester-
day, between Sokma Kieui and Onier Kieui, about five miles
S.W. of Ishekli. It is called by the Turks the Sandukli Chai,
because it takes its rise a few miles beyond that place, and
flows through the plain of that name. Were it always full
of water it would certainly be the longest and most distant
source of the Maeander, but it yields in importance to those
at Deenair and at Ishekli; and whether it represents the
ancient Orgas, or O brim as, or Glaucus, it is an unim-
portant stream. I am rather inclined to consider it the
Obrimas, as its sources near Sandukli would then fall in
the line of Manlius's march from Sagalassus into the