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tered a second valley, where the river receives a 

 considerable tributary from the valley of Tre- 

 meely, which lies to the south of us. Two miles 

 further on the stream divides into two branches, 

 one flowing from the north, and the other from the 

 south. By the side of the latter, about a mile 

 and a half above the junction, lies the village 

 of Ebajik. Here we were in the heart of the 

 Cibyratis, a district far surpassing Milyas in 

 fertility and beauty of scenery. It is cut up 

 into numerous little plains, each watered by its 

 own stream. This feature of the country accords 

 with the statement of Pliny, who says that sixty 

 perennial rivers, and more than a hundred 

 torrents rise in the mountains of the Cibyratis 

 and flow into the Indus.* 



Ebajik is a small village of a dozen cottages. 

 It and Parnaz, another village near the head of 

 the plain, are the yailahs of villages of the same 

 name in the low country, near the mouth of the 

 Dolomon river. We visited it on account of the 

 report of ruins in the neighbourhood. It had 

 previously been visited by Mr. Hoskyn and Mr. 

 Forbes, a few months before, when returning to 

 the valley of Xanthus by the pass of Mastah 



* Pliny, v. 28. 



