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good deal of opium is grown, but not enough to fully supply this 
opium-consuming race. :No reliable information can be obtained 
respecting the head-waters of the Nmai Kha. It is thought that the 
Phung Mai, east of Kanti and the Nmai Kha, may be the latter, 
while the Lu is the Salwin. All the water that falls upon the land 
up to within a few miles of the Lu drains to the Irawadi, which thus 
rapidly develops into a noble river, though it is doubtful whether any 
of its sources are farther north than 28° 30’. 
East Asta Minor.—In these days of exploration of the unknown, 
some of the districts that have been longest known, and which fill large 
pages of the world’s history, seem to be least visited. It is this which 
lends additional interest to D. G. Hogarth’s account of his travels in 
Asia Minor—that land of many peoples and of many ruins which has 
for centuries been the stronghold of the Turkish power. Mr. Hogarth 
not only examined many ruined cities, but penetrated through several 
little known passes of the Taurus and Anti-Taurus. In the district 
between Lakes Egerdir and Beysheher there are no passes, but the 
Eurymedon cuts its way through a great gorge, and the population 
interests from its primitive and apparently indigenous character. 
The Pisidian city of Adada, now Kara Bavlo, perched high on its hill- 
top, is a most perfect specimen of an Anatolian city of Roman times. 
Not very distant are the ruins of Lystra and Derbe. 
In a small island upon Lake Egerdir are the remnants of a small 
colony of Greeks, who in the twelfth century deliberately preferred 
Mohammedan to Byzantine rulers. The monastery of Koja Kalessi is 
a remarkable ruin, containing a church of the fourth or fifth century, 
restored in the reign of Justinian, and evidencing the power still 
possessed by heathen traditions in the entire absence of Christian sym- 
bolism from its sculpture. ‘Ihe city of Coropissus is a veritable 
Pompeii, the church probably of the seventh or eighth century, most 
of the ruins alittle later. The east Taurus is richly wooded, and is 
traversed by the tremendous canyons of Samanti, Saros and Jihan, not 
passable even on foot. Several important passes occur farther east 
than the famous Cilician Gates. This district was the last refuge of 
the independent Armenians of Cilicia, and their robber towns, Hadjin 
and Zeitun, still exist. The half-troglodyte Kurds, nominally Mussul- 
mans, but with pre-Mussulman customs, have penetrated to these parts. 
The Anti-Taurus, deserted since the eleventh century, is now inhabited 
only by the nomad Ayshar and some Kurds, who found their way there 
about fifty years ago. The great Roman road to the Euphrates can 
