noon, we refolved to go on. The aga appointed a Turk to accompany
us as a guide and fafe-guard, afferting that he was re-
fponfible to Elez-Oglu, if any ftranger fuffered from the Turcomans
on that road. We fet out, and had on our right De-
pecui, a village, in which we could difcern a large, fquare,
ruinous edifice, with fpaces for windows. We then came to a
wild country covered with thickets, and with the black booths
of thefe wanderers, fpreading on every fide, innumerable, with
flocks, and herds, and horfes, and poultry feeding round them,
We croffed an extenfive level plain, overrun with bullies,, but
miffed Metropolis, of which, it has been related ', fome veftiges
remain j our guide leading us to the left of the direct road from
Smyrna to Ephefus.
A bout three o’clock we approached a valley, which divides
two lofty mountains. The extremity of Gallefus or the Aleman,
which was on our right, is covered with trees, riling beautifully
in regular gradation up the Hope. The other, oppofite to it,
is quite bare and naked. We now perceived four men riding
brilkly toward us, abreaft, well mounted and armed. Our Janizary
and Armenians halted, as they paffed, and, faced about
until they were gone-beyond our baggage, We came foon after
to a fountain, and a coffee-hut, above which, on the mountain-
fide, is Ofebanar, a Turkilh village. We then difcovercd on our
left a; ruined bridge, and the river Cayfter, which met us again
at four, the water ftiil; and apparently, ftagnanf, the.banks fteep.
A caftle, vifible afar off, Hands on a.fummit of Gdlefus.
W e turned, weftward at the endiof the opening between- the
mountains, and had on our left a valley, bounded by a mountain
called antiently Paftyas. The road- lay at the foot of Gallefus,
beneath precipices of a. ftupendous height, abrupt and in-
acceffible. In the rock are many holes inhabited by eagles ; of
which feveral were foaring high in the air, with crows clamour-
1 ike Whcler and Chifhuil.
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ing about them fo far above us, as hardly to be difcernible. By
the way was a well and part of a marble farcophagus, on
which were carved heads and feftoons. The Cayfter, which
had been concealed in the valley, now appeared again; and we
had in view before us the round hill and ftately caftle of Aiafaluck,
very feafonably for man and horfe, both jaded with heat
and wanting reft. Mount P^dtyas here retires with a circular
fweep, while Gallefus preferves its direction to the fea, which is
the weftern boundary of the plain, This has been computed
five miles long. The Cayfter met us near the entrance on i t ;
and we paffed over an ordinary bridge, a little below which are
pieces of veined marble, polilhed, the remnants of a ftrudture
more worthy Ephefus. The ftream was lhallow, but formed a
bafin croffed by a weir of reeds. We purchafed fome live mullet
of the fifherman, who was there. A narrow track winding
through rubbilh and loofe ftones round the caftle-hill brought us
in about half an hour more to Aiafaluck.
I s h a l l infert here an account of a journey to Aiafaluck in
1705, from an imperfect diary', found among Chifhull’s papers,
written in Latin by Dr. Antony Picenini, a Grifon, who happening
to be then at Smyrna, joined in company with conful
Sherard, and other gentlemen of the English nation. They
fet out on the fourteenth of Auguft, at four in the afternoon,
and palling through the plain of Buja-w, came about five
to a little hill and a rivulet then drys and after riding about three
hours pitched their tents by a fmall village, cjall.ed Sinofocheli.
They fet out again the next morning before ljx, through an uncultivated
plain ; and after two hours croffed a narrow but deep
ftream, which he calls Halefus ; going on in this plain, the
road good, they obferyed in l efs than two hours, feme veftiges
of an Aquaedjidt reaching toward a yjllage on their le ft; where
1 In the pofieffion of John J.oycday, Elut of Caverflrfm near Reading.
The other gentlemen were the Rev. John Tiller, chaplain to the Englifh Factory
; and Cutts Lockwood, and John Lethieullier, two capital merchants, of
great fpirit and generofity.
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