Part 29 (1/2)

[437] Homs, or Hems, the ancient Emessa.

[438] This plain is the ancient Clo-Syria.

[439] Hamath of Scripture, the Epiphania of the Greeks.

[440] The El Asi, or Orontes.

[441] These wheels are still common on the Orontes.

[442] Tur-Kadir-Oglu.

[443] It is not very easy to identify this animal by La Brocquiere's description; if he had not described it as ”large,” we might have supposed it to be a gazelle.

[444] Karaman-oglu, the Seljukian prince of Karamania.

[445] Ana.n.u.s, now the Giaour Tagh.

[446] The Gulf of Ayas, the ancient aegae.

[447] Probably the one known as G.o.dfrey de Bouillon's castle.

[448] p.r.o.nounced yuyurt.

[449] The Christians of Asia believed implicitly that the infidels had a disagreeable smell which was peculiar to them, and which baptism took away. This superst.i.tion will be again noticed. The baptism was, according to the Greek ritual, by immersion.

[450] Kara-Kapu, or Temir-Kapu, ”the Iron Gates,” the ancient Pylae Amameae.

[451] The Campus Alcius of the ancients, now Tchukur Ovah.

[452] Sis, or perhaps Anazarbe.

[453] Now called Jeihun.

[454] Missisah, on the Jeihun.

[455] The churches have now entirely disappeared.

[456] This bridge is at present constructed of stone.

[457] Adanah.

[458] The Seihun, the ancient Surus.

[459] Tarsus.

[460] La Brocquiere is right in his conjecture.

[461] The ancient Cydnus.

[462] Kurkuss, the ancient Corycus.