. Narrative of the Euphrates expedition : carried on by order of the British government during the years 1835, 1836, and 1837. . f our invalids, Messrs. Murphy andAinsworth, might be benefited by the change, as well asmyself, we left Port William on January 9, taking withus only one other effective individual, Mr. A. to Aintab, and from thence to Killis, wecrossed the Beilan chain to Scanderoon; whence we Beilan chain. sent some of our workmen (whose engagements werecompleted) to England, and commenced our exploratoryjourney. After going over the Issic plain, its battle-gro
. Narrative of the Euphrates expedition : carried on by order of the British government during the years 1835, 1836, and 1837. . f our invalids, Messrs. Murphy andAinsworth, might be benefited by the change, as well asmyself, we left Port William on January 9, taking withus only one other effective individual, Mr. A. to Aintab, and from thence to Killis, wecrossed the Beilan chain to Scanderoon; whence we Beilan chain. sent some of our workmen (whose engagements werecompleted) to England, and commenced our exploratoryjourney. After going over the Issic plain, its battle-ground, ground of and other places of interest, we continued our Issns journey along the Jihun * to Missis, and to Adana,—thence to Tarsus, where we were hospitably receivedby the family of the French Consul, M. Gilet, whom wefound engaged in excavating some very singular remains, near the town. These consisted of massive walls in Tarsus and its ancient the form of a parallelogram, within which, at either temple. r D end, was a solid square block of masonry,—while two * Jihun, or Jeharson, the l River of the World. I— X. JOURNEY THROUGH THE TAURUS. 213 transverse and very substantial lines of masonry crossed chap. xiithis parallelogram at its eastern extremity. M. Gilet, »—r-^—- however, in this case failed to find anything like aninterior chamber, the whole consisting of masses ofmasonry, which most probably originally formed partof some kind of temple. Passing onward from Tarsus through a district oftertiary rock, we visited the extensive but imperfectly-worked lead-mines of Kule Boghaz, which occur in Kuie Boghaz limestone of the cretaceous series. After an unsuc- lead-cessful attempt to find the expected coalfields, weresumed our journey along the abutments of theTaurus, in the direction of Sis. The people on thisline have so bad a name, that our mukero (muleteer)refused to take us by the direct route, and we hadimmediate proof of his correctness, by a shot whichwas
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