ridge of Alabanda had been likened to an afs with a pack-faddlej
and a wag added, carrying a load of fcorpions. At Mendelet, as
Pocock relates, fome perlbns die, every fummer, by the fling
of this inleft.
L e a v in g Carpufeli at fix in the morning,, and going north-
eaftward, in about an hour and a half we forded the clear Har-
pafus, the bed now wide, crooked, and fandy. At ten our courfe
was northward, on its bank, in a valley. We were furrounded
with the delightful trilling of innumerable nightingales; and
the fifh were vifible in the chryfial Hream. The river is defcribed
by the fhepherd-poet of Smyrna after rain, as impetuous, and
roaring whole days at its junftion with the Mæander; and Pliny
has mentioned a town called from it, Harpafa ; now, if I miflake
not, Arpas-kalefi, a ruined place, walled, on a hill above a fmall
plain between the mountains, about a mile fouth of the Mæaa-,
der, direftly oppofite to Nolli
W e pafled lèverai villages, and leaving the Harpafus behind
usj came at one to the Mæander, then deep in its bed ; a fide of
the bank torn away by the violence of the current. We were two
minutes in ferrying over in a triangular boat; the rope of vine-
Hocks hanging down lax in the water. The Hream below made
an elbow. An ordinary caufey, acrofs fome low morally ground,
fucceeded, with groves of tamarilk and a wide road. The ferry
is difiant about an hour and a half from Gtizel-hiflar, once Mag-
nefia by the Mæander.
» Pocock.
C H A P .
C H A P . LX.
Pocock's journey to Carpufeli — To Mylafa — EJki-hiJar and
places adjacent — Po Arabi-hiffar or Alinda.
WE fhall give here an abftraft of Pocock’s ' journey into
Caria from Guzel-hiflar. He pafled the Maeander at the ferry,
when the bed was full; the Hream rapid, and a furlong broad.
He defcribes the vine-boughs, o f which the rope confifted, as
about an inch and a half in diameter, and from ten to fifteen feet
long. Three men pulled the boat over, a poll fixed in it refling
againfl the rope. The mouth of the Harpafus, which he
calls the China, is, as he relates, about a mile below the ferry.
That river has a wooden bridge, about eight miles further eafl-
ward, built on nine or ten large Hone piers, and about three
hundred feet long. He eroded there, and went on a league to
Salalhar, where he lodged in a miferable khan. The next day
the road lay between little green hills for about a league and a
half, when he came into the fmall fertile plain of Carpufeli, and
to the ruined city on the fouth of i t ; which, he obferves, ex-
aftly anfwers to the fituation of Alabanda.
F r o m the fouth-eafi corner of this plain, Pocock afeended
fouthwards, about three miles, to the top of the mountain,
where is a plain about a league broad. He calls the range
mount Latmus, and was told, it was frequented by wolves, wild
boars and jackalls; and alfo by bears and tygers. Many herdf-
men dwell on i t ; and In fome places it was ploughed up, and
the fields inclofed with large trees laid round the edges. A
low, eaiy, defeent led into the vale of Mylafa, which he computes
about four leagues long and one broad.
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