160 DISTRICT OF TRDAS. 
CHAP. They had never before seen Englishmen ; but 
V -y- ./ they gave us an account of certain Frenchmen^ 
w\\o had endeavoured, without success, to visit 
the top pf Gargarus, which they called Kazdaghy:. 
From this place a road leads to Beyram, antiently 
Assos, upon the Adramytlian Gulph, now called 
Ydramit. The Ruins of Assos were described 
to us as sufficient to employ any person two 
days in a mere survey. Many Inscriptions are 
said to exist there, hitherto unobserved by 
European travellers. 
Half an hour after leaving Turhmanle we 
came to Bonarhashy of Beyramitch, the second 
place we had seen of that name; and so called, 
'Warm likc tlic first, ffom its vicinity to ih.Q fountain-head 
of some very remarkable warm springs, three 
of which gush with great violence from artificial 
apertures, into a marble reservoir entirely con- 
structed of antient materials. This beautiful 
bason is shaded by the oldest and finest Oriental 
plane-trees. Its waters take their course into 
the plain, where they fall into the Mender. The 
people of the place relate the same story of 
these springs as of the others at Bonarhashyy 
the supposed site of Ilium. They affirm, that 
they are cold in summer, and hot in winter, when 
it is said smoke ascends from them. The frost 
>vas on the ground at the same time we tasted 
Spring 
