50 GILICIA. 



prisoner was found not guilty. Curious coincidence, 

 muses the ingenuous stranger ; elementary example of 

 cause and effect scoffs the resident, well versed in the 

 tortuous byways of Ottoman jurisprudence ! 



Under these circumstances it is surprising to find 

 as much commercial and agricultural development as 

 there is. In spite of every disadvantage a certain 

 amount of wheat is grown, and the cotton industry is 

 in a flourishing condition. There are cotton-mills at 

 Adana, Tarsus, and Hamidiyeh. In the hands of 

 Messrs Trypanni the factory at Adana does a large 

 and flourishing business. Founded by the father of 

 the present proprietors, who made a fortune by the 

 export of cotton to America during the war of 18 GD- 

 IS 64, the mills now have an average annual output of 

 1,800,000 lb. of cotton thread, and employ from 600 to 

 800 hands. The thread finds its way to various parts 

 of the country, where it is made up into cloth, and in 

 a good year the seed extracted from the raw cotton is 

 exported to England to make cotton-seed oil. 



The chmate of the plaints unpleasant in the summer, 

 when the pests of the insect world issue forth in their 

 thousands from the low-lying marshes in the vicinity 

 of Tarsus, and the European population of Mersina 

 moves in a body to the hills near by. That the heat 

 is appreciable may be gathered from the fact that an 

 enterprising company which was a short time ago 

 formed in Tarsus for making ice, paid no less than 

 40 per cent the first year, though charging only the 

 modest sum of |-d. per oha (2f lb.). 



Having interviewed the va/i,; [Bahri Pasha, a Kurd- 

 ish prince who exercises a strong if masterful authority 

 over his district, and having obtained a huyuruldu or 

 open letter, and the necessary zaptieh, I continued my 

 journey on the morning of January 5. The road runs 



