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SEPULCHRAL COLUMNS. 
visible, which I regretted the more, from occasionally observing 
several short columns not far from the road, appearing to me to 
be funeral monuments of the earlier ages. In this darkling way 
we got on about fifteen miles, when our Tatars halted at a coffee- 
hut, nearly opposite to one of the picturesque fountains which are 
so numerous in this part of the East. While they were drinking 
their favourite beverage, I was attracted to the water; and on 
observing the stones which composed the building, found them 
all similar short columns to those I had remarked on the road. 
They were shaped like the upper part of a pillar, with its capital. 
Having called to Ahmed Aga to bring me some blazing faggots, 
by their light I discovered several Greek inscriptions, only one 
of which I was enabled to copy. 
ICAIAN02AAEZAN AP0IO 
NH2O<M22EN0AAEMIMNO 
NSEMNHAAOXHArAnHTH^V 
AN APinO0HTH 
2TNTE4)A0ISIT0KETSI § 
KAITEKN0AIENE0T2IN 
Zi2N<I>PONi2N 
I enquired whether these relics had been found at the spring, 
and was answered in the negative ; they had been brought from 
a village not far distant, called Dainggainy, where the like stood 
in vast numbers. On riding an hour farther, we passed five 
more columnar tombs, standing close to the road ; there, in the 
.manner of its western conquerors, marking the cold repose of their 
long-forgotten dead. In another hour we were wrested from 
these meditations, by entering the extensive vale of Boli, where 
a scene presented itself of the most terrible sublimity; the forests 
