Syrians of Cappadocia,1 or Leuco-Syria>>\'; inhabited a portion
of this country.
The Pashalik of Mar’ash extends *K>m that of Koniyeh
eastward to the Euphrates, and ng • : southward from the
Sivas district to the borders of h -'.a. With the exception
of the comparatively level' ew A ry towards the river,
it consists almost entirely of Joft» and wooded mountains,
being traversed by a portion o! . lie Anti-Taurus near its
northern limits, by Taurus Props ■ near its centre, and more
southward by a part of the ite d b n Tagh, from which the
Amahiis branch runs in a 8US.W • direction into Syria. This
part;of the Pashalik is amply watered by the affluents of the
rivers already described (pages 295 to 301), viz. the Saihun
r id Jaihan, in addition to the eastern Melas and other streams
■a IspA 3 - ;;rto ‘A MSypkafteft -V <- . •*,trs limits, on the
the VA; it» ^ ^ .M 0 h - s i r
'a - ■. i ■ - - . llesiai, a
without gardens or
even trees, anti.. ;i.,t. • :■ t- iMu assiiir ■: ancient Carbanum),
which contains several mosques, the remains of a castle,, and
about 1100 houses in the midst of gardens and groves.3
On the slopes of this part of the Taurus, also, are the small
districts and towns of Kakhtah, Kerkun, Bozuk, Tokariz, and
Suuopisat, each under a Kurdish Boyah Bey. Again, northward
are those of Ah-shehr, A! .Bo*? inn. Y&n»*:*.- West-
'’i'-i.Ai/-"hv A y.P -of K«s>. ami sA; nlitsost'on the
**«- Sfathu a 1 -- -i! j trf: ovv described) and
j’valMi-.i;,}; p , i <.i.*■ i;:. This city is on
U-'r. mountains, and near the
toiiito'ii • ng to Aleppo: it is shut in,
on the side vi r a low range of hills;' and, on a
detached hill, ri*; - iiie higher part of the town, at the
opposite ■ extremity, nitle, a respectable work, strikingly
like that of Aleppo, ¡v, Edition to some line- an >sdnes and
, 1*S#. ' - -" ! Strabo, lifc. Xlii, pv 544'?.
:jA Mr*.-. AinswoT.th’s J.ouna. • Ka!«aviych to ii.rchjik, 326, 327,
Vol. X. Part III., of- the AJoys'.i-lSo'ij lit* fi.oyivLGeographical Society.
* See Plates XIX^ and .X&J.,