52 CILICIA. 



while in others tall reeds and patches of pampas grass 

 give evidence of marshy ground. 



Osmaniyeh is the last village we passed in Cilicia, 

 and a short distance beyond the road turns into the 

 Giaour Dagh Mountains. Crossing by the col above 

 Hassan Beyli, we descended to the remarkable valley 

 of the Kara Su, which stretches from Marash in the 

 north to Antioch in the south, passing on our way 

 down it the German excavations at Zingerli, which 

 have laid bare a number of Hittite, Assyrian, and old 

 Semitic monuments. Crossing the valley to the south 

 of Islayeh, we made our way over the southern ex- 

 tremity of the Kurt Dagh to Killis, and thence 

 through vast groves of olives, and later across smil- 

 ing acres of corn land to Aleppo, which we reached 

 on the eighth day after our start from Adana. 



