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of the Country — Appearance of the Ideean Chain towards 
Lectum — Dangerous Situation of the Author. 
It was now time to visit Bonarbashyy a place en vp. 
of which so much has been written and said, ^.^^.—w' 
It had long been a conspicuous object in sight; 
and appeared at a distance towards the south- 
east, upon an eminence commanding a very 
extensive view of all the Plain. Returninsr 
therefore to CaUifat, we took the ordinary road 
to it from Koumkale, and soon arrived at a ford 
of the Mender ; at this time so broad and deep, F«'dofth« 
1 1111 ^ , iMcud.r. 
that we were glad to hail some Turks at a 
considerable distance upon the opposite shore, 
and ask if it were passable. They answered in 
the affirmative ; but we narrowly escaped being 
carried off, horses and all, by the torrent. We 
rode, quite up to the girths, across a place two 
hundred feet wide, and the current was ex- 
tremely rapid. It reminded us of those rivers 
in the north of Sweden, which fall into the Gulph 
of Bothnia. It was at this ford that our friend 
Mr. now Sir IVilliam Gell, in a very different 
season of the year, was in danger of losing all 
the fruits of his journey, by letting his papers 
fall into the river'. He stated the breadth of 
(1) Topography of Troi/, p. 15. See also the very accurate represen- 
tafion of tlie Fnrd, wiih a view, from it, of JDonarbashy, in the 24th 
Plate, p. 70. of the same work. I am able and anxious to bear ample 
tcstinionv 
