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course of the river by the banks of which we 

 have travelled from Katara. It pours into 

 a deep ravine and joins the Xanthus near the 

 remarkable source above Orahn, the ancient 

 Araxa. From what we heard when formerly at 

 Orahn, and from reports told us at Ebajik, we 

 have reason to believe that there is another 

 ancient site among the mountains to the west- 

 ward, immediately above Araxa, and near the 

 side of the river which passes by Oenoanda. 

 If so, the reported ruins are probably those of 

 Choma, a city which we have been unable to 

 find, and the river, the Adesa, a branch of the 

 Xanthus upon which Choma was situated. Un- 

 able to procure a guide at Ooralujah, we were 

 forced unwillingly to give up our search for this 

 place. 



May — Passing through the pretty yai- 

 lah village of Seydeleer, buried among plum, 

 apple, and walnut-trees, we commenced the as- 

 cent of the mountain above, by a road leading 

 to the plain of Almalee. A few hundred feet 

 above Seydeleer, our course lay over a flat ele- 

 vated plain called Moondan, where we found a 

 family of gypsies erecting their tents for the 

 night, in consequence of the threatening appear- 



