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70 AN EXCURSION IN PHRYGIA
amount of money is spent : three times as much
money is embezzled by officials of various ranks:
then the whole enterprise is abandoned. If, in-
stead of these ambitious projects, one quarter of
the labour were expended on the existing routes,
bridging and improving the worst parts, far more
good would be done; but, then, officials could not
make so much money.
Two hours towards the east, along a hill-path
crossing a succession of water-courses which ran
down from a bald range of hills on our left, brought
us to Kadi-Musal, a village lying on the sloping
hillside about 3700 feet above sea-level, and com-
manding a very extensive view to the south. The
day had been chilly after the thunderstorm of
yesterday, and in the late afternoon showers of
rain fell: very unusual weather for this season.
VIII. This morning a ride of an hour and a half
brought us to Duwer (the Wall), from which my
quest was to start. In the summer of 1887, re-
turning towards Smyrna across the Banaz-Ova, I
got into conversation one day with a man who told
me that he belonged to Duwer, and that there was
a wonderful monument close to a small Turbe
(Mohammedan shrine), about an hour on the other
side of the village. I have always thought, and
believe to the present day, that there remain some
Phrygian monuments to be discovered in the country
amount of money is spent : three times as much
money is embezzled by officials of various ranks:
then the whole enterprise is abandoned. If, in-
stead of these ambitious projects, one quarter of
the labour were expended on the existing routes,
bridging and improving the worst parts, far more
good would be done; but, then, officials could not
make so much money.
Two hours towards the east, along a hill-path
crossing a succession of water-courses which ran
down from a bald range of hills on our left, brought
us to Kadi-Musal, a village lying on the sloping
hillside about 3700 feet above sea-level, and com-
manding a very extensive view to the south. The
day had been chilly after the thunderstorm of
yesterday, and in the late afternoon showers of
rain fell: very unusual weather for this season.
VIII. This morning a ride of an hour and a half
brought us to Duwer (the Wall), from which my
quest was to start. In the summer of 1887, re-
turning towards Smyrna across the Banaz-Ova, I
got into conversation one day with a man who told
me that he belonged to Duwer, and that there was
a wonderful monument close to a small Turbe
(Mohammedan shrine), about an hour on the other
side of the village. I have always thought, and
believe to the present day, that there remain some
Phrygian monuments to be discovered in the country