. Across Asia Minor on foot . route of armies, and never was a fortress, forit had no natural features of the kind thought suit-able in early times for the making of one. It hasalways been a plain market - town in a district ofhusbandmen ; and town and district have the reputa-tion among Turks of being a sort of Ottoman Boeotia,or worse. Like a Merzifounli is a reproach thatmay imply dulness, or boorishness, or bad it is a town fortunate in its situation. It isbuilt just where the abrupt range of Tafshan Dagh,rising to nearly 6000 feet behind, meets the plain ingentle slopes and do
. Across Asia Minor on foot . route of armies, and never was a fortress, forit had no natural features of the kind thought suit-able in early times for the making of one. It hasalways been a plain market - town in a district ofhusbandmen ; and town and district have the reputa-tion among Turks of being a sort of Ottoman Boeotia,or worse. Like a Merzifounli is a reproach thatmay imply dulness, or boorishness, or bad it is a town fortunate in its situation. It isbuilt just where the abrupt range of Tafshan Dagh,rising to nearly 6000 feet behind, meets the plain ingentle slopes and downs. In front of the town theground sinks gently for three or four hundred feet;and thence the plain, eight or ten miles in width,with Ak Dagh on the north and lesser mountains onthe south, goes forward to the second gorge of theTersikan Su and the enormous blue precipices ofAmasia twenty-five or thirty miles away. Past thetown, in a little valley, runs the Chai—a mountainstream where it issues from its deep glen in Tafshan. vStreet in Marsovan.
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