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time every traveller, who had two or three attendants, assumed the same 
dignity. The discovery of the fraud has necessarily roused the caution 
of the Turks. 
10th. We were nine hours on the road to Youngali, called nine 
agatch, and which I calculated at thirty-two miles on a bearing of N. 
65 W. The Euphrates accompanied us all the way through a country 
of grass, but of little cultivation. Four miles after leaving Diadin we 
passed the village of Jugan , about a mile and a half on our left: then 
four miles further, still on the left and on the other bank of the Euphrates , 
Utch Klisse. Here a high and snow-covered mountain called Kussi 
Dagh appears in view; and (extending to the S. and W.) the range of 
Ala-Dagh. In the village is an Armenian Church, a very respectable 
looking building, much resembling an European structure. It has two 
wings with a shelving roof, and is covered by a small dome built of 
stone, apparently not in much decay. 
At the termination of that branch of the mountain near which 
Utch Klisse stands, there is a stone bridge thrown over the Euphrates . 
We continued by the bank of the river, which winds from E. to W. 
creating verdure on each side as it flows. We passed through a 
village now in ruins called Alakou ; and on the slope of the hill (three 
miles on the left of the road) that of Comoulja; another called Belasou, 
is close on the banks of the river; and, about eight miles further, 
having passed the miserable huts at Cadi Kieu, we reached after a very 
sultry ride, our Conak at Youngali. All these villages are in the MahalS 
of Alashgerd. 
When we had been about an hour on our road, I missed a small 
carpet from my baggage, and sent back therefore my servant to 
reclaim it from our host at Diadin. From the looks which he cast at 
our goods, I had frequently suspected his honesty, but I might have 
spared my suspicions and my trouble ; for I received nothing but oaths. 
Near to Utch Klisse , we met the battering train of Ibrahim Pacha, 
which consisted of two field pieces, returning from the siege of Turpa 
CaUh, the castle of Timur Beg, who had revolted from his authority 6 
