Identifier: acrossasiaminoro00chiluoft (find matches)
Title: Across Asia Minor on foot
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Childs, W. J
Subjects: Turkey -- Description and travel
Publisher: Edinburgh : W. Blackwood
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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of bridges, one at least showingRoman work, and others Seljukian, span the river,which runs between gardens and trees, and mosquesand quaint old overhanging buildings, and crowdedEastern streets. There are many great water-wheelsraising water for irrigation, whose slowly tippedbuckets make a pervading sound like the tickingof gigantic clocks. Between the precipices thegorge is packed with houses and gardens, terracedin the ravines and on the slopes. There areSeljukian mosques, colleges, khans, and monuments.There is Roman work and Mithridatic work ; andlooking down on all from the face of the westernprecipice are the five great rock-hewn Tombs ofthe Kings. They were old when Strabo, who wasborn here In B.C. &5, wrote of them, and they re-main now unchanged and uninjured from the timethey were cut. High cliffs are impressive enoughwhen overhanging sea or river or lake ; but when,as here, they are upon the grandest scale, and con-front one another across a belt of crowded city, they
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CHOOSING A MEAL 73 become awesome. So I thought as I walked slowlyto a hlian on the main street. As I went I hadglimpses of old tekkes, and mosques, and mosque-yards, and bridges, and river; on one hand wereprecipices and trees and buildings in bright sunlight,and upon the other hand precipices and trees andbuildings in deep shadow ; and always I was madeconscious of enormous vertical height exhibited aboveme. Entering Amasia in the way I did, I thoughtthat for situation it was the most impressive city Ihad ever beheld. It is said that by much the besttime for seeing it is in spring; I saw it at the endof October, and was abundantly satisfied. After taking possession of a room at the khan Iwent out again, and wandered in the streets andhunof over the bridofes till darkness fell—the trans-parent darkness of shadow with light around it, forthe hour was early, and the sky overhead stillbright. And now the fancy took me to try thefood of this city rather than prepare a meal my

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