A Journal Written During An Excursion in Asia Minor By Charles Fellows 1838
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Several columns of the Corinthian order were scat- tered about ; but even from these I was unable to ascer- tain the exact site of the city, which could not however have been far distant from this spot. I should have searched further, had I not anticipated finding the town in the ruins below me, to which I w r as directed by my guide ; but on my arrival I found that these were of little interest, being slightly-built Venetian castles, with their 176 PAMPHYLIA. peculiar three-pointed battlements... ; these are at the en- trance to the pass, and are similar to many others found here, which formerly protected each of the entrances to the interior through this range of mountains. As the evening closed in we saw in the horizon a tent under a tree, and by the flickering of lights in the neighbour- hood and barking dogs, we knew that we approached an encampment of the Yourooks, who, with the Tur- comans, form the pastoral inhabitants of this country. The larger tent was evidently that of the governor of the village, who with his people moves with the seasons.
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