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peared very numerous. It often turns back on its former course, so 

 as to intersect the valley in various directions. Hound the whole 

 boundary of this flat space on the top of the hill, may be traced re- 

 mains of walls, with heaps of stones at intervals, indicating probably 

 the spots where towers had been raised. There are also some exca- 

 vations, like quarries, whence the stones may have been dug ; one of 

 these near the first barrow is very deep ; the marks of the pick-axe 

 are discernible ; many wild fig-trees grow out of its clefts. 



About a quarter of a mile below the village of Bounarbashi, in a 

 S. W. direction, is a Turkish burial-ground, on which are scattered 

 many fragments of architecture, and columns of marble and granite. 

 Their style precludes any pretensions to high antiquity. Neither on 

 the hill just described, nor on the road to it, did we discover any 

 remains of art of a Cyclopean kind similar to those seen at Tiryns, 

 Argos, and Mycenae, and other parts of Greece. We saw no frag- 

 ments of vases and pottery, so generally abundant on the sites of 

 ancient cities in Asia Minor and Greece. W e observed a few sculp- 

 tured marbles in different parts of the village ; one with festoons of 

 flowers suspended from rams' heads ; another with an architectural 

 ornament. 



There was also a bas-relief representing a warrior, his arm resting 

 on another figure ; this appears to have been the metope of an 

 ancient Doric temple. Close to the mosque of the village is a 

 marble slab, on which is an imperfect Greek inscription ; mention is 

 made in it of some act of piety towards Minerva. 



About a mile below the Tchiflick of Bounarbashi and the mosque 

 are the fountains or sources of a rivulet. They are called by the 

 Turks, Kirk-joss, " Forty-eyes." One of the strongest of these springs 

 has been formed into a reservoir or cistern, and some slabs of marble 

 and broken pillars placed for assisting the inhabitants of the village 

 to wash and to fill their urns. The water of this fountain appeared 

 to me of ordinary temperature ; but our guides told us, that in winter 

 it is so much warmer than the adjoining springs, as to send forth 

 vapour or steam. 



