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84 AN EXCURSION IN PHRYGIA
Borlu occupies two hills, with a valley between,
and I was sent back and forward from one hill to
the other, as each person who was consulted made
some new suggestion. A growing crowd accom-
panied, until at last the whole male population of
the town was perambulating from hill to hill and
back again. I was still very ill, and was frequently
obliged to halt, whereupon the whole crowd squatted
or lounged about until I recovered, and was able to
go on. In this way we trudged on, hour after hour,
buoyed up by ever-renewed hopes, as somebody
remembered some house that we had not seen which
might correspond to the description, but always
disappointed. One or two interesting things turned
up, and at last sunset released me from torture. I
had done my duty by that stone, and failed.
XIV. Seven hours to Apameia-Kelainai, now
one of the termini of the Ottoman Railway, but in
1888 an insignificant village. At four hours from
Olu-Borlu, we came to a stone, of which I was in
search. I saw it in 1882, and read the name of
the Emperor Hadrian at the beginning ; but as it
was lying in a bad position I could not see the
rest. I hoped now to find some means of moving
the stone. Originally, the inscribed stone formed
part of a monument, a great, tall, square pillar
standing on a circular basis ; but the parts were
now scattered, though apparently none were lost.
Borlu occupies two hills, with a valley between,
and I was sent back and forward from one hill to
the other, as each person who was consulted made
some new suggestion. A growing crowd accom-
panied, until at last the whole male population of
the town was perambulating from hill to hill and
back again. I was still very ill, and was frequently
obliged to halt, whereupon the whole crowd squatted
or lounged about until I recovered, and was able to
go on. In this way we trudged on, hour after hour,
buoyed up by ever-renewed hopes, as somebody
remembered some house that we had not seen which
might correspond to the description, but always
disappointed. One or two interesting things turned
up, and at last sunset released me from torture. I
had done my duty by that stone, and failed.
XIV. Seven hours to Apameia-Kelainai, now
one of the termini of the Ottoman Railway, but in
1888 an insignificant village. At four hours from
Olu-Borlu, we came to a stone, of which I was in
search. I saw it in 1882, and read the name of
the Emperor Hadrian at the beginning ; but as it
was lying in a bad position I could not see the
rest. I hoped now to find some means of moving
the stone. Originally, the inscribed stone formed
part of a monument, a great, tall, square pillar
standing on a circular basis ; but the parts were
now scattered, though apparently none were lost.