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Chap, lii.]
MOUNTAIN BARRIER.
373
Leaving this insulated patch of gravel and detritus, we
crossed another deep glen, worn in the horizontal limestone,
heyond which the country was again undulating, and the
higher points were covered with clumps of pine-trees. Soon
after nine we approached the western edge of this exten-
sive table-land, supported, as it were, by a wall or harrier
of gneiss and mica schist, and other metamorphic rocks.
Here an extensive view suddenly opened before us down
the valley of the Cogamus, with the town of Aineh Ghieul
before us. Passing through a small village, the road brought
us to a narrow ridge of mica schist and gneiss dipping west
at a considerable angle, occasionally inter stratified with
concretionary quartz, and thin beds of white, friable, paper
schist, the whole of which were more or less contorted.
The real descent commenced about half-past ten, down a
path so steep and rocky that we were compelled to dis-
mount ; the scenery was very grand, and the distant views
clear. Near the bottom we passed round a large knoll of
trap or greenstone, rising up through the metamorphic
rocks, thus giving us evidence of the great natural causes
which have elevated these hills, and converted them into
the barrier of an inland sea which once occupied the plains
of Nazli, Gobek, and Suleimanli.
On reaching the bottom we crossed a small stream flowing
from the east, and, continuing in a W.N.W. direction, soon
crossed the dry bed of the Cogamus descending from the
S.S.E. from Bulladan, where we joined the road from Tri-
polis, Laodicea, and Denizli. Here the valley widened
into a plain, and we continued along the left bank of the
torrent-bed six or seven miles in a W.N.W. direction to
Aineh Ghieul. On the road one of the baggage-horses
fell, and in endeavouring to rise broke his leg; the load
was transferred to the horse of the suriji, who, putting his
own saddle on the lame animal, wished to lead or drive him
four miles to Aineh Ghieul: I was very indignant at such
barbarity, and prevented what 1 considered an act of
great cruelty. People talk of the humanity of the Turks
MOUNTAIN BARRIER.
373
Leaving this insulated patch of gravel and detritus, we
crossed another deep glen, worn in the horizontal limestone,
heyond which the country was again undulating, and the
higher points were covered with clumps of pine-trees. Soon
after nine we approached the western edge of this exten-
sive table-land, supported, as it were, by a wall or harrier
of gneiss and mica schist, and other metamorphic rocks.
Here an extensive view suddenly opened before us down
the valley of the Cogamus, with the town of Aineh Ghieul
before us. Passing through a small village, the road brought
us to a narrow ridge of mica schist and gneiss dipping west
at a considerable angle, occasionally inter stratified with
concretionary quartz, and thin beds of white, friable, paper
schist, the whole of which were more or less contorted.
The real descent commenced about half-past ten, down a
path so steep and rocky that we were compelled to dis-
mount ; the scenery was very grand, and the distant views
clear. Near the bottom we passed round a large knoll of
trap or greenstone, rising up through the metamorphic
rocks, thus giving us evidence of the great natural causes
which have elevated these hills, and converted them into
the barrier of an inland sea which once occupied the plains
of Nazli, Gobek, and Suleimanli.
On reaching the bottom we crossed a small stream flowing
from the east, and, continuing in a W.N.W. direction, soon
crossed the dry bed of the Cogamus descending from the
S.S.E. from Bulladan, where we joined the road from Tri-
polis, Laodicea, and Denizli. Here the valley widened
into a plain, and we continued along the left bank of the
torrent-bed six or seven miles in a W.N.W. direction to
Aineh Ghieul. On the road one of the baggage-horses
fell, and in endeavouring to rise broke his leg; the load
was transferred to the horse of the suriji, who, putting his
own saddle on the lame animal, wished to lead or drive him
four miles to Aineh Ghieul: I was very indignant at such
barbarity, and prevented what 1 considered an act of
great cruelty. People talk of the humanity of the Turks