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BUDltUM TO MUGIILA. 603
a small island, thence continuing along the coast to
Guverjilik, distant ahout three hours and a half.
Both sides of the gulf here are barren and unin-
teresting. Guverjilik is a wretched hamlet, once a
village, but now consisting of about three houses.
A Turkish custom-house is placed here to levy an
export duty on the pine-timber of the neighbouring
forests.
This timber is used in the building of country
ships and caiques; it is of little value, the trees
being of small girth, and the planks carelessly sawn,
so that much is cut to waste. Charcoal is also
exported from this place. There is safe anchorage
at Guverjilik ; but its situation is very unhealthy.
The sea appears to be gradually receding from
the head of this gulf, and its extreme shallowness
along the shore of Guverjilik is probably the
cause of the miasma which makes this place very
subject to intermittent fever. No good drinking-
water is procurable here.
At the mouth of a well opposite to the custom-
house, I noticed a fragment of architrave from
some Greek building.
At the distance of two hours to the north of
Guverjilik, on the shore of a gulf now nearly filled
by alluvial deposit from a small river, arc the
ruins of an ancient city, now called Assarlik.
The best authorities agree in placing Bargylia on
this site.'1
a This site is noticed by Texier, Asie Mineure, iii. p. 144, who
claims the merit of having discovered it. It is also described by
Prince Piickler Mnskau, Die Riickkehr, iii. pp. 177-!). It is
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a small island, thence continuing along the coast to
Guverjilik, distant ahout three hours and a half.
Both sides of the gulf here are barren and unin-
teresting. Guverjilik is a wretched hamlet, once a
village, but now consisting of about three houses.
A Turkish custom-house is placed here to levy an
export duty on the pine-timber of the neighbouring
forests.
This timber is used in the building of country
ships and caiques; it is of little value, the trees
being of small girth, and the planks carelessly sawn,
so that much is cut to waste. Charcoal is also
exported from this place. There is safe anchorage
at Guverjilik ; but its situation is very unhealthy.
The sea appears to be gradually receding from
the head of this gulf, and its extreme shallowness
along the shore of Guverjilik is probably the
cause of the miasma which makes this place very
subject to intermittent fever. No good drinking-
water is procurable here.
At the mouth of a well opposite to the custom-
house, I noticed a fragment of architrave from
some Greek building.
At the distance of two hours to the north of
Guverjilik, on the shore of a gulf now nearly filled
by alluvial deposit from a small river, arc the
ruins of an ancient city, now called Assarlik.
The best authorities agree in placing Bargylia on
this site.'1
a This site is noticed by Texier, Asie Mineure, iii. p. 144, who
claims the merit of having discovered it. It is also described by
Prince Piickler Mnskau, Die Riickkehr, iii. pp. 177-!). It is
2 it 2