202 GREAT VALLEYS. 



The elevation could not be less than four thou- 

 sand five hundred feet above the level of the 

 sea. Three magnificent valleys descended in as 

 many different directions from the height where we 

 stood. One opened to the coast south of the 

 rugged and strangely broken summits of Mount 

 Climax, affording a glance of the Pamphylian 

 sea. A second separates Climax from Bara- 

 ket-dagh, and is called the Tchandeer Val- 

 ley. Through this is the pass into the plain 

 of Adalia, and doubtless this was the route 

 by which Alexander's army reached Pamphylia. 

 The third valley passes under Sarahajik, and 

 opens into that through which the Allagheer 

 river flows. From Kosarasee, a small village of 

 about a dozen families, living in tents and sheds, 

 the ruins of Sarahajik are visible. The elevation 

 of this village we found, by our thermometers 

 and boiling- water, to be about three thousand 

 nine hundred feet. Our lodging here was a very 

 miserable shed, a few boards leaning against a 

 low wall, — no great shelter in this cold locality, 

 for during the night the air was very chilly, and 

 the ground covered with hoar frost in the morn- 

 ing. At daybreak there was a stir among the 

 poor villagers ; one of whom, an old woman, was 



