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house at the foot of a rocky escarpment, between 

 two and three hundred feet high, the edge of an 

 extensive plain of travertine, similar to that 

 upon which Adalia is built. The Pacha's road 

 terminated here, degenerating into a horse-track, 

 winding round every bush and knoll. Four 

 miles farther, in the direction of the mountains, 

 we unexpectedly came upon the ruins of a city, 

 situated on the flattest and most fertile part of 

 the plain, with no protecting rock or eminence 

 to serve as an acropolis, or any traces of sur- 

 rounding walls, — an unusual position for an 

 ancient town. As we were at least three miles 

 from the Gulelook Pass, and, in consequence of 

 the late hour at which we started from Adalia, 

 it was now near sunset, we halted, and took 

 up our lodging in a large and substantial Turkish 

 ruin, which our guide called the Eski (old) 

 Khan. This is a large and imposing quadrangu- 

 lar building, constructed of squared blocks of 

 calcsinter, each marked with a masonic mono- 

 gram. The materials of this edifice had not 

 been derived from the neighbouring ruins, but 

 had been hewn specially for it. We counted more 

 than thirty different masonic emblems. Among 

 the most frequent were the following. 



