18 PERGE. 



were, but proposed going the next day to Mor- 

 tana (Perge), and so on till we came to Bolcas, 

 where he would take a guide, as he thought that 

 the proper road led from thence. 



" In passing from these ruins to Perge, I crossed 

 no river. I presume that the two sources from 

 the rock of the preceding day must be, after all, 

 the veritable sources of the Duden ; unless by 

 chance my route happened to lie in some part of 

 that extraordinary plain where the main current 

 has an underground course. I did not stay long 

 at Perge, but fortunately made a sketch, in- 

 tending to return some fine day from Adalia 

 with Purdie. 



" I passed on that evening, and crossed the 

 Oestrus. My object had been to reach, if pos- 

 sible, ' the city on a hill, conspicuous from 

 Perge,' but at which my rather unwilling mule- 

 teers declared there was no water : so I bivouacked 

 at a well, amid a swarm of musquitoes, a mile or 

 two beyond the Oestrus, and passed on the next 

 morning to Assar, the modern name of the city 

 in question. This, you will be surprised to hear, 

 lies due compass-east of Perge, but is in truth 

 Fellows' Isionda.* There has been a magni- 

 * See his map and description in his First Tour. 



