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Updated: May 23, 2025
How draw the wonderful outlines of those mountains! How paint the airy hue of violet-gray, the soft white lights, the thousandfold pencillings of mellow shadow, the height, the depth, the far-reaching vastness of the landscape! In the middle distance, a great blue gorge passed transversely across the two ranges and the region between. This, as I rightly conjectured, was the bed of the Sihoon.
The bare walls on either side fall sheer to the water, and the road, crossing the Sihoon by a lofty bridge of a single arch, is cut along the face of the rock. Near the bridge a subterranean stream, almost as large as the river, bursts forth from the solid heart of the mountain.
The great mountain, blocking up the gorge behind us, was bathed almost to its foot in the rays, and, seen through such a dark vista, was glorified beyond all other mountains of Earth. The air was piercingly cold and keen, and I could scarcely bear the water of the Sihoon on my sun-inflamed face.
After travelling eight or nine miles, we emerged from the pass, and left the Sihoon at a place called Chiftlik Khan a stone building, with a small fort adjoining, wherein fifteen splendid bronze cannon lay neglected on their broken and rotting carriages.
They are large and well-constructed works of stone, and surrounded by ruins of stables, ovens, and the rude houses of the soldiery. Passing between these, we ascended to the shelf dividing the waters of the Cydnus and the Sihoon. From the point where the slope descends to the latter river, there opened before me one of the most glorious landscapes I ever beheld.
We enter the Taurus Turcomans Forest Scenery the Palace of Pan Khan Mezarluk Morning among the Mountains The Gorge of the Cydnus The Crag of the Fortress The Cilician Gate Deserted Forts A Sublime Landscape The Gorge of the Sihoon The Second Gate Camp in the Defile Sunrise Journey up the Sihoon A Change of Scenery A Pastoral Valley Kolue Kushla A Deserted Khan A Guest in Ramazan Flowers The Plain of Karamania Barren Hills The Town of Eregli The Hadji again.
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