A CLIMB IN CAPPADOCIA.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 3, Issue 119, 10 January 1880, Page 2

A CLIMB IN CAPPADOCIA.

Two Englishmen, Henry F. Tozio ami T. M. Crawder, bavo recently ascended Mount Argrouß, the highest mountain in Asia Minor after Ararat. In the account which they sunt to the London Times. thoy state that their first tent was pitched on the mountain side 8,000 feet abovn the sea. At two o'clock the next morning they started under the brilliant light of tho full moon, ttn J bognn a climb of 1,000 foet, which was a terribly hurl piece of work, as the ground was extremely steep and the face of tho mountain was covered with loose stones nnd masses of fallen roc.lt equally untrustworthy to the foot. Whon thoy were in the middle "i th« climb tho first rays of tho sun fell on porphyry rocks abovo them and pro dueod a splondid effect by turning then: (o a bright crimson. At hist, at about 0 01 clock they reached tho ridgo, where there was a long arete of snow at tho hoad of a vast Kimw-slope which formed a conspicuous object on the north sido when seen iv.mi kniHcrich, They reached

a point 200 feat higher, boforo reached by Hamilton, the Secretary of the Lnnilon Geological Society, iu 1837, ami by Tailuiclieti', the Russian savant, in 18IS. The view was very extensive, inoluJing the 1 ing line of Anti-Taurus to the east, the mountains that run down toward Lvcaouia to the south-west, and to the n u'th the vast undulating plains, or rather steppes which occupy the interior of the. country. But far the most remarkable leaturo is the mountain itself, for the lofty pinnacles of porphyry which rose around and beneath thein., veritable aiguilles, were as wonderful a sight as could well be conceived. It was strange even in that land of (Jappadoeia, which is of ancient rock buildings, to iind the llicks excavated close to the summit, and these chambers were clearly artificial, for the marks of the chisel wero evident along cut roof and walls, and there wero niches in the sides.