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236 VII. LOUNDA; PELTAI, ATTANASSOS.
App. II § 6), and on the right a ridge which stretches from the south
end of Burgas-Dagh S.W. to the Hyrgalean Mountains (Tchal-Dagh),
rising 600 or 700 ft. above it1. This last ridge merges itself in the
eastern part of Tchal-Dagh (see next paragraph).
The Maeander, after traversing the Apamean valley, the pass that
leads to Siblia and the Siblian country, turns round the apex of the low
triangular plateau just described, and flows S.W. down the valley of
Eumeneia and Peltai2, receiving the waters of the Glaukos (when it is
not dry) not far from Peltai. Looking from either end and seeing
the length of the level valley, one would naturally fancy that the
Maeander flowed through its whole length and found its way into the
Colossian glen. But, instead of doing so, the river, when it reaches
Lounda, turns sharp to the right underneath the city and flows away
due north through a gap in Tchal-Dagh and along the eastern part of
Tchal-Ova, between two parallel ridges of Tchal-Dagh ; and then
after about 12 miles it turns west through a break in the western
Tchal-Dagh, separates Dionysopolis from Motella, gradually turns
towards the south, and finds its way through a great chasm in the
Mossyna mountains amidst magnificent scenery into the Lycos valley.
It is remarkable that the country through Avhich it flows for con-
siderable part of this course continues about the same level through-
out. The Apamean valley is about 3,800 ft. above the sea; the
Siblian and Eumenian about 2,700; the eastern Tchal-Ova about
2,600 or 2,500, and the western about 2,500-300. But the river flows
in a channel which is further and further below the valley as we
proceed; when it turns round the site of Lounda the canon is 400 or
500 ft. deep, in the western Tchal-Ova about 500-700, near Dionyso-
polis about i,oco3. It enters the Lycos valley at a level of about 600
ft., while the mountains which it has just traversed rise to 4,000 ft.
and further back even 5,000 ft.
Tchal-Dagh, which shuts in the territory of Lounda on the west,
consists of a part of the mountain-rim of the Anatolian plateau (the
Mossyna mountains Ch. I § 1) and of two parallel ridges which project
1 Banaz-Ova is about 400 ft. higher Apamenam primum pervagatur regio-
on the average than Begio Eumenetica. nern, mox Eumeneticam, ac dein Hyr-
The ridge separating the two is really galeticos campos, postremo Cariam
the raised edge of Banaz-Ova, which placidus.
slopes gently up to the summit; while 3 According to a number of aneroid
the ridge rises sharply on the other side readings, I estimate the various fords
from the Eumenian valley. and bridges of the Maeander at 1,270
2 Pliny H. N.~V 113 Amnis Maeander and 1,340 near Dionysopolis, and at
ortus e lacu in Monte Auloerene .... 1,950, 2,070, 2,080 in eastern Tchal-Ova.
App. II § 6), and on the right a ridge which stretches from the south
end of Burgas-Dagh S.W. to the Hyrgalean Mountains (Tchal-Dagh),
rising 600 or 700 ft. above it1. This last ridge merges itself in the
eastern part of Tchal-Dagh (see next paragraph).
The Maeander, after traversing the Apamean valley, the pass that
leads to Siblia and the Siblian country, turns round the apex of the low
triangular plateau just described, and flows S.W. down the valley of
Eumeneia and Peltai2, receiving the waters of the Glaukos (when it is
not dry) not far from Peltai. Looking from either end and seeing
the length of the level valley, one would naturally fancy that the
Maeander flowed through its whole length and found its way into the
Colossian glen. But, instead of doing so, the river, when it reaches
Lounda, turns sharp to the right underneath the city and flows away
due north through a gap in Tchal-Dagh and along the eastern part of
Tchal-Ova, between two parallel ridges of Tchal-Dagh ; and then
after about 12 miles it turns west through a break in the western
Tchal-Dagh, separates Dionysopolis from Motella, gradually turns
towards the south, and finds its way through a great chasm in the
Mossyna mountains amidst magnificent scenery into the Lycos valley.
It is remarkable that the country through Avhich it flows for con-
siderable part of this course continues about the same level through-
out. The Apamean valley is about 3,800 ft. above the sea; the
Siblian and Eumenian about 2,700; the eastern Tchal-Ova about
2,600 or 2,500, and the western about 2,500-300. But the river flows
in a channel which is further and further below the valley as we
proceed; when it turns round the site of Lounda the canon is 400 or
500 ft. deep, in the western Tchal-Ova about 500-700, near Dionyso-
polis about i,oco3. It enters the Lycos valley at a level of about 600
ft., while the mountains which it has just traversed rise to 4,000 ft.
and further back even 5,000 ft.
Tchal-Dagh, which shuts in the territory of Lounda on the west,
consists of a part of the mountain-rim of the Anatolian plateau (the
Mossyna mountains Ch. I § 1) and of two parallel ridges which project
1 Banaz-Ova is about 400 ft. higher Apamenam primum pervagatur regio-
on the average than Begio Eumenetica. nern, mox Eumeneticam, ac dein Hyr-
The ridge separating the two is really galeticos campos, postremo Cariam
the raised edge of Banaz-Ova, which placidus.
slopes gently up to the summit; while 3 According to a number of aneroid
the ridge rises sharply on the other side readings, I estimate the various fords
from the Eumenian valley. and bridges of the Maeander at 1,270
2 Pliny H. N.~V 113 Amnis Maeander and 1,340 near Dionysopolis, and at
ortus e lacu in Monte Auloerene .... 1,950, 2,070, 2,080 in eastern Tchal-Ova.