Hummumloo, or Humanli, 19 h., Rte. 33. The road now diverges from the great road, and takes a N.E. direction to

Hajji Abbasse, 34 m., a village, romantically situated among the mountains. Before reaching this town and beyond it are some curious excavations in the face of a range of hills. The most remarkable is an insulated rock, which appears to have fallen from the mountain, and which has been excavated into a circular chamber, entered by 3 square doors, of the size and shape of those in the smaller caves of Carli, between Bombay and Poona.

10 m. from this place the traveler crosses the Ashar Su, a river wider but of less volume than the Parthenius. The post-house of Ashar is 12 h. from Hajji Abbasse.

Kastamouni, or Costambone, the ancient Germanicopolis. It stands in a hollow, and in the center of the town rises a lofty perpendicular rock, crowned with a ruined fortress, formerly possessed by the Comneni. There are 30 mosques with minarets, 25 public baths, 6 khans, and a Greek ch. in the town. It contains a pop. of 12,000 Turks, 300 Greeks, and some Armenians. The commerce is trifling, and there are no manufactures. The neighborhood is bare, dreary, and unfertile, though intersected with watercourses.