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the other fide, and in the diftricl: of Jurkup-Cafabas, 

 a number far exceeding that, was to be feen. Can any- 

 thing be more incredible, than mch an enormous quan- 

 tity of pyramids cut out of the folid rock into regular 

 habitations (which certainly never could have fprung out 

 of the earth likemumrooms), whereof neither in any an- 

 tientauthor, nor in any other book of travels, the High tefe 

 trace is to be found ? It might pafs, if he had difco- 

 vered them in the vaft deferts of Syria : but in fo well- 

 known a country as the antient Cappadocia it never can. 

 However, as Paul Lucas affirms that he faw them with 

 his own eyes, they muftbe there ; but, from the number 

 which, according to his affertion, muft amount to up- 

 wards of 50,000, I think we may reafonably be al- 

 lowed to take away at leaft one nullo. Five thoufand 

 fuch pyramidal houfes of rock form a very handfome 

 number ; and in the hafty and exceedingly tranfient 

 manner in which he faw them (as he would not allow 

 the caravan to flop, nor go any diftance from it him- 

 felf) his eyes might have a little deceived him in the 

 account. He fays with equal confidence, in the 12th 

 chapter of the fecond part, of the lions, who prowl in 

 great multitudes about a certain foreft lituate between 

 Momette and Tunis : the inhabitants of the country 

 relate fiories of thefe lions, which feem abfolutely fabu- 

 lous and incredible ; however, thus much is certain, fays 

 he that the women of thefe parts have the gift of fearing 

 thefe lions and putting them to flight only by railing 

 at them (en leur difant des injures). In another place 

 he tells us, with the moil ferious face in the world, 

 that: An [Armenian] citizen of Ifnik [Nicsea], re-* 

 latedto him a very extraordinary circumftance that hap- 

 pened 



