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copied the few inscriptions which were legible 

 throughout. 



" It had been my original intention, when 

 I thought I must go so far north as Karabunar, 

 to go on to Gherme, and perhaps to Aglasoon, 

 with an especial object of seeing whether I could 

 ascertain if Fellows had been right in calling it 

 Selge, or Arundel in giving us his almost un- 

 willing conviction that it was Cremna ; but when 

 I returned to my men in the evening, and began 

 to question both as to whether they knew of 

 any city between Gherme and Bolcas, along 

 that ridge of mountains which closes in the great 

 Pamphylian and Pisidian plain, from almost the 

 sea to where, I presume, was Gherme itself, the 

 older man pointed to the highest ridge of the 

 mountain which we had first seen pink in the 

 sunset on our descent to Phineka, and said that 

 nineteen years ago he had been there, and that 

 he remembered great ruins, but could not describe 

 them ; that they lay behind the mountain in 

 the valley beyond, at a village called Serhghe : 

 this he pronounced so like Selge that I immedi- 

 ately said, ' Then we will give up Karabunar, and 

 all the places on that road, and go at once to 

 Selge.' He knew of no road from where we 



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