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three stone buildings, and a coffee-house kept 

 by Turkish soldiers, acting as guards to the pass. 

 Here we put up for the night, not a little 

 gratified by the assurance given us by one of 

 these men that the report of ruins on the 

 neighbouring mountain was true. 



April 27th. — Early in the morning we com- 

 menced the ascent of the mountain, to seek 

 for the ruined city. The first part was over 

 steep and rocky ground, but after a time we 

 came upon an ancient roadway, leading towards 

 an opening in the mountain-side between two 

 towering rocky peaks. Following this road, 

 which was buried in trees, and encumbered 

 by underwood, for an hour and a half, we 

 suddenly came upon two ancient guardhouses, 

 almost perfect, one on either side of the way. 

 We did not linger to trace any connecting 

 wall, but hurried anxiously on with sanguine 

 expectations. For nearly a mile we met with 

 no other traces of ruins. Some sarcophagi were 

 at length discovered among the thicket, and 

 near them on the face of a great rock, were 

 carved in large letters, the words 

 T1AATONIK02 



