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164 V. PHRYGIAN CITIES OF THE LOWER MAEANDER.
bridge at Ortakche is an early Turkish bridge, built soon after the
country came into the hands of the Seljuks (see Ch. I).
The Turkish bridge was in its turn destroyed, probably by a flood ;
and we may date from this event the growth of the modern route
(which keeps along the north bank of the Maeander) and the decay of
the towns on the south bank. There was still maintained a ferry two
miles below the ruined Turkish bridge; but any little camel traffic
too heavy for the ferry-boat must have gone by the north side of the
Maeander and the Lycos. At a later date a wooden bridge was thrown
over the Maeander four miles below the Lycos junction to facilitate
the connexion 1 with the important city of Denizli (the seat of a Pasha);
and thus Serai-Keui, the only important town on the south bank of
the Maeander in this region, has grown up during the present century",
1 For long the habit lasted that small
light parties crossed by the ferry below
the broken bridge, though heavier trade
went up to the Denizli bridge. Chand-
ler in 1765 and Arundel in 1828 used
the ferry. Hamilton used the bridge
in 1836. But though Chandler saw no
village at Serai-Keui (he speaks only
of nomad encampments in the plain),
Arundel found a poor village and a
khan there (with Turkish and a few
Greek houses); and a khan implies a
road and traffic. But this village was
produced by the road and the new
bridge. We may understand that the
wooden bridge was built in the mid-
dle of last century, and Serai-Keui
grew after that date. As is mentioned
below, the weekly market of the dis-
trict was transferred to Serai-Keui
only about 40 years ago, having pre-
viously been at the site of Men Karou's
liieron.
2 The history of the roads, though it
may perhaps seem too slight and simple
to require such minute description, has
been given here at length, because
M. Radet (a young scholar who has
done much excellent work and made
many discoveries in Asia Minor) has
gone against it. Misled by the fact
that Serai-Keui is now the great centre,
and either unaware or regardless of the
evidence published years ago, that it is
of purely recent growth, he has framed
a theory of the roads in the Lycos valley,
which appears to me to violate sound
reasoning in the general scheme and in
many details. He identifies Karoura
and Kydrara, he places Karoura at
Serai-Keui six miles from the nearest
hot springs and two miles from the
Maeander (though the chief facts re-
Corded about Karoura are that there
were hot springs in it and in the bed of
the Maeander on whose banks it stood),
and he makes the important road from
Colossai to Sardis take a detour of fully
five miles by Serai-Keui. We have
already shown that Cyrus did not take
this route ; and, in a word, M. Radet's
scheme contradicts most of the results
in this chapter, several of which seem
to me to be fixed so precisely by the
evidence that they form the best start-
ing-points for any details of the ancient
measurements. M. Radet's scheme was
published BCH 1891 p. 375 f, and as-
sumed as proved in his Lydie et le
Monde Grec (Paris 1892) p. 34 f. In
the latter place he tacitly makes a
slight concession to my criticism by
admitting the route along the north
Lycos bank as an ' indifferent' alterna-
tive. He states in veiy strong terms
that my views are often guided by pre-
judice against his own discoveries
(Lydie pp. 323, 324), and rejects my
bridge at Ortakche is an early Turkish bridge, built soon after the
country came into the hands of the Seljuks (see Ch. I).
The Turkish bridge was in its turn destroyed, probably by a flood ;
and we may date from this event the growth of the modern route
(which keeps along the north bank of the Maeander) and the decay of
the towns on the south bank. There was still maintained a ferry two
miles below the ruined Turkish bridge; but any little camel traffic
too heavy for the ferry-boat must have gone by the north side of the
Maeander and the Lycos. At a later date a wooden bridge was thrown
over the Maeander four miles below the Lycos junction to facilitate
the connexion 1 with the important city of Denizli (the seat of a Pasha);
and thus Serai-Keui, the only important town on the south bank of
the Maeander in this region, has grown up during the present century",
1 For long the habit lasted that small
light parties crossed by the ferry below
the broken bridge, though heavier trade
went up to the Denizli bridge. Chand-
ler in 1765 and Arundel in 1828 used
the ferry. Hamilton used the bridge
in 1836. But though Chandler saw no
village at Serai-Keui (he speaks only
of nomad encampments in the plain),
Arundel found a poor village and a
khan there (with Turkish and a few
Greek houses); and a khan implies a
road and traffic. But this village was
produced by the road and the new
bridge. We may understand that the
wooden bridge was built in the mid-
dle of last century, and Serai-Keui
grew after that date. As is mentioned
below, the weekly market of the dis-
trict was transferred to Serai-Keui
only about 40 years ago, having pre-
viously been at the site of Men Karou's
liieron.
2 The history of the roads, though it
may perhaps seem too slight and simple
to require such minute description, has
been given here at length, because
M. Radet (a young scholar who has
done much excellent work and made
many discoveries in Asia Minor) has
gone against it. Misled by the fact
that Serai-Keui is now the great centre,
and either unaware or regardless of the
evidence published years ago, that it is
of purely recent growth, he has framed
a theory of the roads in the Lycos valley,
which appears to me to violate sound
reasoning in the general scheme and in
many details. He identifies Karoura
and Kydrara, he places Karoura at
Serai-Keui six miles from the nearest
hot springs and two miles from the
Maeander (though the chief facts re-
Corded about Karoura are that there
were hot springs in it and in the bed of
the Maeander on whose banks it stood),
and he makes the important road from
Colossai to Sardis take a detour of fully
five miles by Serai-Keui. We have
already shown that Cyrus did not take
this route ; and, in a word, M. Radet's
scheme contradicts most of the results
in this chapter, several of which seem
to me to be fixed so precisely by the
evidence that they form the best start-
ing-points for any details of the ancient
measurements. M. Radet's scheme was
published BCH 1891 p. 375 f, and as-
sumed as proved in his Lydie et le
Monde Grec (Paris 1892) p. 34 f. In
the latter place he tacitly makes a
slight concession to my criticism by
admitting the route along the north
Lycos bank as an ' indifferent' alterna-
tive. He states in veiy strong terms
that my views are often guided by pre-
judice against his own discoveries
(Lydie pp. 323, 324), and rejects my