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plain of Phineka; the latter, named the Arab 

 Tchy, is a broad torrent, varying according to the 

 season, and flowing over a shingly bed. When 

 we passed it, a number of Turks were wading in 

 the middle of the stream, arresting the progress 

 of blocks of timber, floated down from the 

 Tchandeer Valley. Near it was a Turkish ceme- 

 tery, containing many ancient architectural frag- 

 ments; and in a cliff hard by there was a plain 

 rock-tomb. Here commence a line of ancient 

 sea-cliffs, which stand three or four hundred yards 

 within the present line of shore, forming an 

 abrupt boundary to the rocky plain of Adalia. 

 The town is built upon the edge of them, by that 

 part over which anciently fell the Catarrhactes. 

 The whole of this plain is formed of travertine, 

 and the streams flowing over it being charged with 

 carbonate of lime, build up natural aqueducts 

 until they overflow and take a new course. 

 Hence arises the discrepancy between the ancient 

 and modern accounts of the river-courses of this 

 part of Pamphylia. Before entering the town, 

 we passed through a suburb of huts and cottages, 

 for the most part inhabited by Mussulman 

 Arnaouts, a colony from the Morea, expatriated 

 during the Greek revolution, and numbering 



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