. Across Asia Minor on foot . 2>. o THE VALLEY OF GUER^Mlfi 227 more, the low cliffs were scored and pitted by ancientchambers laid open by the rock decaying. You couldsee the inner half of a gallery, fifty yards long andfour or five feet high, stretching along the cliffs faceand joining chambers which now had the appearanceof caves. There were also excavations like tunnelswhich ran back from this gallery into the still solidrock. Where the ravine widened yet more, a broken iso-lated mass of rock, fifty or sixty feet across and thirtyor more in height, stood in the midst of the openspace li
. Across Asia Minor on foot . 2>. o THE VALLEY OF GUER^Mlfi 227 more, the low cliffs were scored and pitted by ancientchambers laid open by the rock decaying. You couldsee the inner half of a gallery, fifty yards long andfour or five feet high, stretching along the cliffs faceand joining chambers which now had the appearanceof caves. There were also excavations like tunnelswhich ran back from this gallery into the still solidrock. Where the ravine widened yet more, a broken iso-lated mass of rock, fifty or sixty feet across and thirtyor more in height, stood in the midst of the openspace like a rugged island in little. It, too, was honey-combed with passages and cells, of which some hadbeen exposed by weathering as in the cliffs. AVhileI looked at this primitive dwelling something movedin a hole close to the ground, and the head of achubby brown-faced child appeared. It came out asmuch at home and unconscious of its surroundingsas a slum-child in an alley, but on seeing me drewback out of sight with the startled manne
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