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burying-ground adjoining, where there were scat- 

 tered a few blocks and fragments. Although 

 the neighbourhood is capable of great fertility, 

 and appears in ancient times to have been well- 

 cultivated, yet from the few remains found here, 

 the spot may have been merely a mountain 

 fortress or station on the ancient road of 

 communication between Lycia and Pamphylia, 

 which from Limyra must have followed up the 

 valley of the Allagheer Tchy to the water-mill 

 near Kirk Derek, being the most practicable. 

 This is the route used at present. When it 

 ascends to this spot, it then branches into 

 two different routes. The one runs by the pass 

 of Kosarasee above Sorahajik, and the other 

 crosses the mountain immediately above these 

 ruins, by a gap or pass between two summits of 

 this branch of Taktalu, and eventually reaches 

 the Pamphylian plain by the coast. An hour 

 from Akheer Tash, we arrived at Geodena, a 

 beautiful spot, forming a sort of natural theatre 

 in the side of the mountain. Numerous terraces 

 ranging one above the other, supported about 

 twenty scattered cottages, almost hidden in a 

 cluster of fruit-trees, just bursting into leaf 

 and blossom. A copious stream descended from 



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