Hamilton, William John: Researches in Asia Minor, Pontus, and Armenia: with some account of their antiquities and geology ; in two volumes (Band 2) (London, 1842)

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vesicular lava which had issued from one of the cones at the
foot of Hassan Dagh, and, on ascending a platform near its
N.W. extremity, was surprised at finding myself on a ter-
race covered with tiles and Roman pottery, and numerous
substructions of massive walls, which, from their ancient
and solid character, appear to have belonged to an old
castle. It is not unlikely that this may have been the
site of the station of Momoasson, mentioned in the ' Jeru-
salem Itinerary ' as between Archelais and Nazianzus.