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' city of Cilicia, which, according to Armenian Geographers, formed 

 the fifth province of Armenia Minor. The Syriac and Arabic writ- 

 ers call it by the same name. (Gregory Bar. Hebrseus, Chron : 

 Syr: p. 195; Abulfeda, Tabula Sy rice, p. 138; Assemanus, Bibl: 

 Orient: torn. II, Dissert: de Monophy sites.) It is situated in a 

 plain about 24 miles north from Anazarba, on the bank of a small 

 river which unites with the Jihon. Although Sis was a place of 

 some note as far back as the 10th century its citadel being men- 

 tioned by Theophans it was the above-mentioned Leo, who encreas- 

 ed its importance in 1186 by erecting several edifices and churches, 

 and by making it his residence on certain occasions ; which cir- 

 cumstance is testified by the Arabic writer Ibn Said, as quoted by 

 Abulfeda, loco citato. From 1220 it was the capital of the king- 

 dom until its destruction in 1374; in the interim however it was 

 besieged and taken by the Egyptians, but restored in 1266. On 

 the capture of Roum-Kalah by the Sultan of Egypt, Sis was made 

 the see of the Armenian Gatholicus up to the year 1441, when it 

 was transferred to Etchmiatsin, the present seat : it is however the 

 residence of a Patriarch. In 1307 a celebrated Council was held 

 here owing to some doctrinal differences. Sis was also the place 

 to which the remnants of the Crusaders took refuge on the des- 

 truction of the Latin kingdom of Palestine. The city is now in- 

 cluded in the Turkish division forming the Pashalik of Adanah : 

 it is chiefly in ruins, having lost all its pristine greatness and splen- 

 dour, of which a minute account is given by an eye-witness Wil- 

 librand ab Oldenburg, a German traveller of the thirteenth century.. 



VIII. On the Powers of the Aneroid, and Us toothing compar- 

 ed with the Mountain Barometer /—By Lieut. General 

 Ctjllen. — Communicated by the Author. 



Having run over to Coimbatore on some Public business, I 

 thought I might as well push on to the Neilgherries to test the Pow- 

 I ers of the Aneroid. I have had two of these Instruments from the 

 last two or three recently made by Watkins and Hill of Charing 

 Cross and purchased for me by Capt. Worster of the Artillery at 

 Madras. They had verniers and read off to hundreths of an inch. I 



