. Across Asia Minor on foot . vStreet in In the Mission Compound, Marsovan. I VINEYARD CULTIVATION 39 Dagh. But there the water is snatched away atonce in channels for irrigation, and only enoughflows along the natural course to make a few un-pleasant pools among the shingle. Marsovan is a warren of narrow alleys and streetsand courts, such as might be expected in a walledcity but not in an open town of 20,000 souls. Andyet from a little distance it makes a good appearance;for many of its buildings, though only of sun-driedbrick, are plastered externally, and give the effectof a whi
. Across Asia Minor on foot . vStreet in In the Mission Compound, Marsovan. I VINEYARD CULTIVATION 39 Dagh. But there the water is snatched away atonce in channels for irrigation, and only enoughflows along the natural course to make a few un-pleasant pools among the shingle. Marsovan is a warren of narrow alleys and streetsand courts, such as might be expected in a walledcity but not in an open town of 20,000 souls. Andyet from a little distance it makes a good appearance;for many of its buildings, though only of sun-driedbrick, are plastered externally, and give the effectof a white town with red-brown roofs. Up to thishuddle of white walls and warm roofs upon risingground come vineyards and orchards and gardens,the custom being to build closely in towns, and foreach householder of substance to have his piece ofcultivated land in the immediate outskirts. Here,therefore, for a mile outside the dwellings, are in-numerable plots divided by paths and water-courses,and dotted with huts for summer dwelling standingamidst trees a
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