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P icenini and his companions left G u z e 1 - h i ffi r at five in the
afternoon, and at nine came to a hut called Chiofek or Chiau-
fkui: The next morning they fet out at fix, and at eight reached
Sultan-hiffar. ■ Soon after they paffed through a village called
Homerkioi, in the way to the town of Nofli, where they arrived
at eleven. They were pleafed with the civility of the Turks,
with the three mofques, the houfes, and the neatnefs of the
ftreets.
F rom Nofli thefe travellers went eaftward through the plain;
and after about four hours, flopped on the banks of thé Mseander,
which river they croffed the next morning, and then in an hour
faw an old caftle.called Jeni-fheir upon a hill, with arched caves
or vaults at the foot. They afcended to it, having paffed a rivulet
named Gerigere, and found, befides thick walls built with
fmall ftones, a few fragments of columns. • From thefe ruins,
returning eaftward, they had a fine view of the Mseander in the
plain below, and found there a lion carved in white marble, the
head and hind parts miffing, the back infcribed with the word
o A o c, The way, which fhows it was defigned as an index for
paffengers.
L e a v in g the Mseander behind, they went on, more to the
fouth in a vale almoft uncultivated; and at noon halted by fome
mills near the fource of the rivulet which they had repaffed; and
arrived, • after two hours more, at Geyra:-or Aphrodifias, diftant
twenty hours from Guzel-hiflar or Magnefia. There they met
with many ruins'and'infcriptiohs; and of the latter-Copied near
an hundred.
F rom Geyragoing eaftward and fometimes northwardly, among
hills, they came to a lofty mountain, which they afcended by a
rough track amid thickets and pines. Narrow vallies fucceeded,
and after four fhort hours they reached Ipfili-hiffar, a caftle on
a pointed hill within the mountain, and two hours, as they were
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told, from the Meander, They found there about fifty Turkifh
cottages and a mofque, by which were three infcriptions, wit
a few other remains.
T he i r road lay again through narrow vallies. After two
hours they thrice paffed a rivulet, called Hagi-fic, remarkable
for winding like the Mseander, into which it runs; and after
three hours came to Gerelikioi, a pleafant village about a fhort
hour from that river. Going four hours more, eaftward, among
pleafant hills and vales, they arrived at Laodicea.
I t feems probable that Jeni-Sheir was antiently Orthofia, and
that the vaults or arches are remains of fepulchres; and alfo,
that Ipfili-hiffar was Cofcinia, and the winding rivulet that mentioned
as running toward Alabanda. The infcriptions, which
they copied, prove Geyrajo have been Aphrodifias, a place ranked
by Strabo among the fmaller towns lying round about Laodicea
and Apamea. Some of them have been publifhed by Chifhull;
but many more, equally worthy the attention of the learned, are
preferved in a manufcript, which was Lord Oxford s, now in
the Britifh Mufeum.
Pocock 1 reached Jeni-Sheir by a different rout; going from
Nofli about four miles fouth to the Mseander, where was a
wooden bridge ; and from thence to Arpas-kalefi; then turning
fouth, and going to a village two leagues farther eaftward at the
entrance of a narrow vale, which extends fouthward between
the hills. He defcribes Jeni-Sheir as to the eaft of this place, a
hill ftretching from eaft to weft with ruins on it of the walls of
a town, and with a great number of arches underground. There
the Turkifh army in 1739 fubdued the famous rebel Soley Bey
Ogle, who was flain, with four thoufand of his followers. He
then entered the narrow vale, and going about eight miles to
the fouth, left a town or large village on the weft. This place,
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