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CHAP. XVI.] CLIMATE NORTHWARD OF THE TAURUS. 359
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cynical remark of Stratonicus, the guitar player, that he could
not call a city unhealthy in which even the dead continued to
walk about. 1 During the trying and generally, to Europeans,
fatal seasons of rain and extreme heat, it is the custom of the
inhabitants of Caria and Lycia, after putting in their crops, 2
to remove to the mountains ; and a journey of one or two days
is sufficient for the transport of the families from the sheltered
but unhealthy valleys producing the orange, lemon, grape,
tamarind, silk, and tobacco, 3 to an alpine temperature. But
the climate which generally prevails at other seasons on the
southern slopes of the Taurus, in a line eastward from Samos
to the borders of the district of Tarsus, is quite agreeable, and
accords with that which, by Herodotus, 4 has been ascribed to
Ionia, Lydia, Caria, and Lycia.
The tract of country whose climate approaches nearest to climate about
that which has just been described lies along the shores of the ^ arabuzun '
Euxine and Propontis. The valleys, forests, and streams on
the northern side of the Taurus produce, during summer, a
great degree of humidity in the atmosphere within the limits
of the Pashalik of Tarabuzun, while the warm breezes from
the Black Sea diminish the severity which would otherwise
prevail during the long winter in this mountainous region.
Malaria prevails near the river Jorak as well as in some few Seasons for
tracts along the coast westward of Tarabuzun; and on the flults
approach of the unhealthy season (the autumn) some of the Laz
remove from the town of Choruk-su to a better climate : 5 else
where, although exposed to the effects of alternate heat and
moisture, the climate of this extensive pashalik must be con
sidered healthy. The seasons for the different kinds of grain,
for hemp and flax, for the mulberry and other fruits, are late ;
cherries are not ripe till the beginning of July, and figs and
grapes, at soonest, towards the end of September.
1 Strabo, lib. XL, p. 651.
8 Mr. Fellowes's Discoveries in Lyoia, 1841, &c., p. 238; and Mr. Hoskyns's
MS. Survey, p. 28.
8 Mr. Fellowes, pp. 152, 216.
4 Lib. L, c. cxlii.
5 Mr. Brant's Journey, Vol. VL Part IL, p. 194, of the Royal Geographical
Journal.