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to ask if there was a Xi/ivi] in the neighbourhood, 

 the Turk answered there was ; and when I asked 

 if it had a name, he replied, 6 Capru, like the 

 river.' This is all very satisfactory. The Eury- 

 niedon, from the south side of this lofty city, can 

 be seen at different points till it enters the sea. 

 Then I could also make out its mouth. 



" On the 28th of July I foolishly decided upon 

 going to Eski Adalia. I was anxious, having a 

 crotchet about the true Sylleum, to see what sort 

 of a place Fellows's Sylleum was. It consisted of 

 three or four isolated towers, one or two 

 blocks laying about in the neighbourhood, and 

 not a vestige of a middle-age, or ecclesiastical 

 ruin, near, It appeared to me like a border 

 fortress between the Sidati and the Aspendians ; 

 and some of the remains about it might have 

 been those of a small temple, which seems, as in 

 the case of the Massicytus Tloean fortress, 

 (usually) to have accompanied these isolated resi- 

 dences of soldiers. We were forced to sleep in 

 a very moderate sort of a place this Friday night. 

 I suspected the fever from the nature of the 

 neighbourhood of the village. The next morning 

 we rode to the sea-shore, a little to the east of 

 south. I was in hopes we were coming at once 



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