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hour we came to two or three huts and a cow 

 house ; which, after sweeping out and removing 

 the cattle, we made our habitation, being assured 

 that there was no other place of shelter near the 

 ruins. Whilst Pagniotti was preparing dinner, 

 . we hurried to the reported " castle," which we 

 saw about a mile before us, in form of a great 

 building imposingly placed on a precipitous rock, 

 overlooking the valley. It proved to be the 

 remains of a large and irregular fortress, much 

 of which still stood entire, leading the people 

 around to exaggerate their importance, for they 

 presented not the slightest traces of ancient 

 architecture. The site is a very grand one, and 

 the view from it superb, overlooking a wide 

 expanse of the Pamphylian plain, and extending 

 to the Pisidian mountains. This prospect of the 

 pass and its entrance entirely removed any doubts 

 we might have had respecting the identity of the 

 route we were travelling with that followed by 

 the army of the Macedonian hero. Our disap- 

 pointment at not finding an ancient site here, 

 after the magnificent expectations we had formed of 

 the ruins atTchandeerHissar, frequently described 

 to us as among the finest in the country, led the 

 peasants of the neighbourhood to underrate certain 



