Injeh-su, 19 m.; a casaba or town, situated on a river of the same name, containing no vestiges of antiquity. From this town the road bears E.S.E. round the W. end of Erjish Dagh.

Kara-hissar, 21 m.; a small ruined town, built on the sides and slopes of a steep acclivity, and crowned with the mouldering walls of an old castle, whence it derives its name. It is supposed by some to occupy the site of the ancient Cybistra. The declivities of the adjacent hills are covered with orchards; while an abundant supply of water is conveyed through every part of the gardens by small aqueducts or canals.

The road now leads through the gorges of a chain of hills W. of Kara-hissar, and at the third mile passes under a high perpendicular rock, crowned with an ancient fortress, called Gengi Bar, or Nur, the ancient Nora, where Eumenes stood a siege against Antigonus. 4 m. farther are some curious oblong fragments of rock, about 30 in number, placed vertically, 2 and 2 on the top of each other, in the manner of Stonehenge. The upper stones must have been raised by art, as they could not have been so placed by nature. In the face of the adjoining hill are a number of small excavations.

Misli, 24 m., Rte. 40. The road continues over a fine plain, which is partially inhabited and cultivated, bare of trees, but producing wheat, barley, cotton, and sesame, and containing many artificial tumuli. 18 m. from Misli this plain contracts into a narrow valley, watered by a branch of the Kisil Irmak.

Nigdeh, 22 m.; a town of consequence, supposed to be the ancient Cadyna. It is the residence of a Pasha. In the streets may be seen the shafts of some marble columns. The rock of soft sandstone has been excavated into distinct apartments, with doors and windows, which serve as habitations. The population of Turks and Greeks amounts to about 5000, who are very poor.

Kilis-hissar, 13 m.; described in Rte. 40. The road now leads for 8 m. over the plain, and then crosses a ridge of hills to

Tchekisla, 24 m.; a mud village, situated in a narrow valley, a short distance from one of the chief gorges of Mount Taurus. The road now runs for 16 m. through a narrow vale, formed by a ramification of Mount Taurus, to the rt. of a chain of hills. At the 8th m. are the remains of a Roman camp. Leaving this valley, the road crosses a mountain into an intricate defile, at the bottom of which flows thc Sihoun.

A Khan, 21 m., is situated at the junction of the Sihoun with another stream. The traveller now crosses the stream, and enters a gloomy defile on the l. bank of the Sihoun. The breadth of the pass for 9 m. varies from 50 to 200 yards; the steeps of Taurus, covered with pines, rising vertically on each side. At the 9th m. the road crosses the Sihoun by an old stone bridge of 1 arch, and the pass opens into a valley: a torrent is seen bursting from an abyss in a most wonderful manner, in a volume of water equal to the river.

A Khan, 14 m., near which the roads diverge, that on the l. to Adana, that on the rt. to Tarsus. The road to Tarsus crosses the mountains in a southerly direction, and is very rugged and steep.

A Post-house is situated at the distance of 10 m.

The road for about 2½ m. is now tolerable, and, descending the l. bank of a stream, it enters a very romantic pass 5 m. in length, and not more than 10 paces wide from rock to rock. The cliffs and sides of the mountains, clothed with the most beautiful evergreens and pines, hang like a vast canopy over the defile; while their bare peaks tower above the clouds. The road runs along the side of a precipice, sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and is in too bad a condition to be practicable, except during the day, many of the large stones of the Roman way having been removed, or having fallen, and the remainder being so smooth and slippery as to be most dangerous footing for horses. At the end of the 8th in. the mountains retire, and show the ruins of a fortress on the summit of a stupendous cliff.

A Khan, 10 m., is placed at the mouth of the defile, which probably was that of the Pylæ, through which the armies of the younger Cyrus and of Alexander entered Cilicia. The road now lies in a S.S.E. direction, through a country interspersed with gentle slopes; and at the 21st m. we enter the level plain of Tarsus, bounded on 3 sides by mountains. At this distance the city has more the appearance of a park than a town; nothing but its extensive gardens being visible.

Tarsus, 30 m. from the month of the defile. See Rte. 42.