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LEAVE KIZ HISSAR.
[Chap, xlviii
CHAPTEE XLVIII.
Leave Kin Hissar—Eregli—Hot Springs of Kekrout—Sulphur—Salt—Oolitic
Structure—Lake of Ak Gliieul—Katabofhron—Encampment—Divle—Ruined
Town—Ak Chesha—Chorla—Kara DagU—Bin Bir Kilisseh—Site of Lystra—•
Reach Karaman, anc. Laranda.
August 5.—Kiz Hissar to Eregli thirteen hours. We left
the gardens soon after six this morning, proceeding due west
along the stream, with the aqueduct to our right. Near
the village it had reached a considerable elevation, in con-
sequence of the fall of the ground; and close and slender
piers gave it a picturesque appearance. After quitting
the village, with its springs and marshy ground, we tra-,
versed in a W.S.W. direction (by compass) an extensive
plain, bounded to the south by the snowy range of Taurus,
to the north by Karajah Dagh, and probably constituting
a portion of the great Cappadocian district of Tyanitis.
We stopped at some tents a short distance from the
village, to fill the water-jugs at a dirty well, as none was
to be found the whole way to Eregli. The plain, which is
flooded in winter, was perfectly dry, a slight saline efflo-
rescence occurring here and there. To the north the moun-
tains of Karajah Dagh were seen stretching away to the
S.W. from Hassan Dagh, with many volcanic-looking cones
rising out of the plain near the foot of the mountains. The
road soon approached the low hills on the left, consisting of
red marl and sandstone ; a few miles off to the right Tur-
coman tents were pitched near the marshes, in which the
waters of the Nigdeh river, not absorbed by irrigating the
gardens of Bor, are lost. Flocks and camels were grazing
in all directions on the plain and low hills to the left, at the
foot of which were a few ruined houses and saltpetre-works.
LEAVE KIZ HISSAR.
[Chap, xlviii
CHAPTEE XLVIII.
Leave Kin Hissar—Eregli—Hot Springs of Kekrout—Sulphur—Salt—Oolitic
Structure—Lake of Ak Gliieul—Katabofhron—Encampment—Divle—Ruined
Town—Ak Chesha—Chorla—Kara DagU—Bin Bir Kilisseh—Site of Lystra—•
Reach Karaman, anc. Laranda.
August 5.—Kiz Hissar to Eregli thirteen hours. We left
the gardens soon after six this morning, proceeding due west
along the stream, with the aqueduct to our right. Near
the village it had reached a considerable elevation, in con-
sequence of the fall of the ground; and close and slender
piers gave it a picturesque appearance. After quitting
the village, with its springs and marshy ground, we tra-,
versed in a W.S.W. direction (by compass) an extensive
plain, bounded to the south by the snowy range of Taurus,
to the north by Karajah Dagh, and probably constituting
a portion of the great Cappadocian district of Tyanitis.
We stopped at some tents a short distance from the
village, to fill the water-jugs at a dirty well, as none was
to be found the whole way to Eregli. The plain, which is
flooded in winter, was perfectly dry, a slight saline efflo-
rescence occurring here and there. To the north the moun-
tains of Karajah Dagh were seen stretching away to the
S.W. from Hassan Dagh, with many volcanic-looking cones
rising out of the plain near the foot of the mountains. The
road soon approached the low hills on the left, consisting of
red marl and sandstone ; a few miles off to the right Tur-
coman tents were pitched near the marshes, in which the
waters of the Nigdeh river, not absorbed by irrigating the
gardens of Bor, are lost. Flocks and camels were grazing
in all directions on the plain and low hills to the left, at the
foot of which were a few ruined houses and saltpetre-works.