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Chonos, which has been fuppofed Coloflae. It Hands under a
very high and almoft inacceflible hill, the cottages on the fteep
or acclivity, from which they had a view over the plain from
the eaft to the fouth-weft. Here they found the Greeks ignorant
of their own language. Their church, which was in the caftle
on the hill, refembled a wine-vault. Their papas or prieft was
of Cyprus, and had the care of about forty families, of the fame
progeny as the Turks.
L e a v i n g this place at ten in the morning, and pafling a river,
they faw foon after for the fpace of a mile pieces of columns,
ruined infcriptions, and other remains j and alfo, feveral irregular
winding channels, with a current, as they conjedtured, of mineral
water. , Then directing their courfe more to the weft, in
three hours they came to a river and a plane-tree; and going on,
in lefs than an hour and a half had Pambouk in view on their
right hand.
P o c o c k went from Denilli to the north-eaft, by a large ftream
called Sultan Emir, which he fuppofes the Cadmus, running
near that corner of the mountains, from which the hills of Lao-
dicea begin, and falling into the Lycus about a league to the eaft
of that place. He paffed the Lycus at a bridge by an old khan,
called Accan, well-built, of white marble from fome antient
ruin. Mount Cadmus turns here to the eaft, and continues
about fix miles. At the northern foot of it is a rock, where So-
ley Bey commonly refided, and had eleven pieces of cannon for
his defence ƒ and a village underneath, which is that fuppofed to
be Coloflae. All over the plain were fmall channels for water,
then dry, incrufted like thofe of Pambouk.
C h o n o s feems to have had the fame affinity with Coloflae a s
Denifii with Laodicea. The river, which Picenini paffed on
leaving Chonos, was probably the Lycus; and the ruins, which
fucceeded, the remains of Coloflae. The other river muft have
been the Maeander. Pocock does not diftinguifh between Chonos
and Coloflae. He has miftaken the Lycus for Cadmus; and
the Maeander, as feveral other travellers have done, for the
Lycus.
P o c o c k continued his journey eaftward from Chonos; wjhen,
a little farther on, the hills, ran for about two leagues to the
north, and then turning toward the eaft again, were the fouthern
boundary o f a fine vale about one league wide, and four long. On
the fouth fide of thele hills are waters, like thofe of Hierapolis,
incrufting the flope with a white petrification; and On the op-
pofite fide are other hot waters. He came to the foot of the high
hills on the north of this vale, where was an encampment of
Turcomans, and crofted over the woody mountain to the north-
eaft to a village, where he paffed the night. He went on in this
fmall plain, which leads on the north-weft into the great plains
of the Maeander, where the river runs along on the weft fide for
about twelve miles, and then goes in between the hills. He
defcribes the Maeander as running to the weft, at the diftance of
eight miles from the north end of the plain, and as turning fouth
from near the weft fide.
W e are now, with Pocock, not far from the junftion of the
Mariyas with the Maeander; for he mentions a plain uniting
with this and extending to the eaft, about two leagues wide and
Four long, with a high hill and a village called Dinglar at the
eaft end, where he was told, a river rifes, and falls down a hill
from a lake at the top; and where, as he was informed, are
ruins.
H e went on, over the Maeander, where it croffes the large
plain, to a village on the north fide; and the next day after travelling
eight miles came to a town, called Iffiecleh, under the .
hills, which are at the north end of the plain; beneath one,
which is very high and fteep, and has on it fome remains of an
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