Note 76 — Chapter VI · FATHER RAMÍREZ AT ÁCOMA

The Encyclopaedia Britannica gives no such places as Abasia or Mount Amar. It does speak of Amasia with an acropolis on a lofty cliff overhanging the town. This is a town in Anatolia (Turkey), splendidly situated in a narrow gorge on both sides of a river and eighty miles from its mouth. It contains remarkable antiquities such as the tombs of the kings of Pontus, described by Strabo. (Illustrated in the National Geographic Magazine, July, 1918, in article “Under the Heel of the Turk.”)