lage named Iack-cui, fix miles eaflward, is fuppofed by Pocock
to have been Briula j and one, at an entrance in between the
hills, as he relates, is ftill called Maftauro. He alfo mentions
fome walls on a very high fummit over Nyfa, which, he conjectures,
may be remains of Aromata ; but that perhaps was the
name only of a diftriCt planted with vines.
C H A P . LXIII.
Arrive at Sultan-hijfar — O f Ejki-hijfar — 'The fuppofed f t e o f
■ “Tralles — Nyfa— Approach to Tralles and.Nyfa— The remains
o f Tralles— Origin o f Sultan-hijfar— Proximity o f Tralles and
Nyfa — Continue our journey.
W E fet out from Magnefia on the twenty third at noon,
going ealtward. By the road near the town were feveral wells
in a row, with Attic bafes of columns perforated, and placed
over the mouths. Thefe we fuppofed remnants of the temple
of Diana Leucophryene. The way was ftrait and wide, in the
plain ; the foil light and fandy, like that of Meflogis the mountain
on our left hand. On each fide of us were orchards of fig-
trees fown with corn ; and many nightingales were finging in the
bufhes. We pafled fome dry water-courfes and rivulets running
down to the Masander; which was once in view, the ftream
winding, with a ferry. It was dulk when we pitched our tent
by Sultan-hiflar, which is about five hours from Magnefia.
Su l t a n -hissar is an old fortrefs with houles in and by it j
Handing in the plain ; the file correfponding neither with that of
Tralles nor with Nyfa. It has, however, fome marble fragments,
which have been removed from adjacent ruins; and on
enquiry, we were informed that the eminence before us had on
it fome remains of old buildings; that the place was called
Elki-hiflar, and diftant about half an hour. We now expeCted
to
to find Tralles and Nyfa there. It Hands on a root of mount
Meflogis, running out into the plain and ending abruptly; once
perhaps, what it now refembles, a lofty promontory encom-
pafled with fmooth water.
In the morning we crofled the plain to the foot of the eminence,
which we afcended, going toward the body of mount
Meflogis. The road up it was Hony, and carried over a deep
but dry water-courfe by an arch. Then followed broken vaults of
fepulchres, and diflindt remnants of buildings, all Hripped of their
marble; Handing on a flat covered with corn, trees, fences, and
walls. This immediately appeared to me to be the fite of
Tralles j which had a river near it called Eudon.
L e a v in g thefe ruins, the road, Hill on the eminence, carried
us eaflward and then to the fouth. We pafled by a few
cottages, where I enquired for the Charonium, thinking we
were at Characa. We foon came to other vaults of fepulchres
and ruins of Nyfa; not on aflat. Here we found a large theatre in
the mountain-fide with many rows of feats, almoH entire, of
blue veined marble, fronting weflward. By the left wing is a
wide and very deep water-courfe, the bed of the river once called
Thebaites, making a vafl gap into the'plain, but concealed in
the front of the theatre, where is a wide level area, with foil,
fupported by a bridge; beyond which, in the hollow, was the
amphitheatre, the figure oblong, the feats refling on the two
Hopes. The bottom of this ftrudture is deflroyed, and only
fome mafles of brick-work remain, with fome marble fragments
by the end next the theatre, where you have a view of the lofty
and folid piers, with arches, fuflaining the area. The eminence
terminates on each fide of the amphitheatre in a precipiece.
On one fide is the ruin of the gymnafium, and on the other, of
the fenate-houfe; by which is the area or vacant fpace of the
agora. The fite of Nyfa, as well as of Tralles, was covered
with corn and fences of piled Hones. We had from it a delicious
profpedt of the plain and of the crooked Masander. Our