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The lower part of the town is enclosed by high walls, 
flanked with square towers, and lined with fine large 
hewn stones. There are some Turkish inscriptions upon 
them, but the work is of Grecian construction, as may- 
be clearly proved by the lions and other figures, which 
are sculptured in different parts". 
Upon entering the city, I perceived several children 
of different ages, all very pretty, with complexions of 
the lily and rose, finely formed, and well dressed. Oh 
seeing them I could not help remarking and praising 
the superior care and attention of the women of this 
country, and painfully recollecting the indolence of the 
women of Egypt and Arabia, whose children are so dis- 
gustingly dirty. 
The bread eaten at Konia, as well as in all Cara- 
mania, is made in cakes about a foot in diameter, and 
a line or a line and a half in thickness, so as to resem- 
ble the wafer cakes in Europe. They are eaten whilst 
soft, and they serve to wrap up a fowl or meat as well 
as a sheet of paper. 
Throughout all Caramania they make use of carts, 
the wheels of which are made of planks, but well 
mounted.* 
It must have been remarked by the account I have 
given of my route, that between Ismil and Konia there 
are not any of the mountains pointed out in the map of 
Arrowsmith. In other respects, his ma'p of Asia Minor 
appears to me to be well executed, and these slight in- 
accuracies may disappear in a new addition. 
Friday^ 9th October, 
I left Konia at eight o'clock in the morning, and 
directed my course to the N.E. and N. along the plain 
* See Plate. 
