ROUTE TO SERHGHE. 



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tomb to be found, except, I think, a solitary 

 rock-tomb or two, either in the city above or 

 on the plain below (v. Fellows' Asia Minor). 



"The direction of Boz-boroom, the great moun- 

 tain behind which I was informed that Serhghe 

 lay, seemed to indicate to me that this must 

 be the place from which we should start ; and 

 I found that I was right. We could find no 

 guide, but our course was pointed out to us 

 by a man who had come from Serhghe the 

 day before, between a gorge of the nearer moun- 

 tains, which it did not seem difficult to track, 

 and which the older guide found, when he got 

 to the top, was the very road he himself had 

 gone nineteen years before. He knew his route 

 by a source at which we had just arrived, and 

 from which a large quantity of water gushed at 

 once, and this he told me was called Karamou- 



agree exactly with the accounts of ancient authors. According 

 to Arrian, Sylleum was so strong that it resisted Alexander ; and 

 Straho describes the city as so lofty that it was visible from 

 Perge. Colonel Leake (on the authority of Hierocles and the 

 Ecclesiastical Notices,) states that " it continued to be a place 

 of importance under the Byzantine empire, and became the 

 principal bishopric of the province of Pamphylia upon the 

 decline of Perge, and superior even in rank to Attaleia." 

 (Leake's Asia Minor, p. 195.) See also Dr. Cramer, ii. p. 280. 



