Simoïsian; and that stream the Simoïs. Here were signalized all the principal events of the Trojan War.

V. The Ruins of Palaio Callifat are those of the Ilium of Strabo. Eastward is the Throsmos, or Mound of the Plain.

VI. The Hill near Tchiblack, if it be not the Callicolone, may possibly mark the site of the Village of the Ilieans, mentioned by Strabo, where antient Ilium stood.

VII. Udjek Tépe is the Tomb of Æsyetes. The other tombs mentioned by Strabo as at Sigeum, are all in the situation he describes. The Tomb of Protesilaus also still exists, on the European side of the mouth of the Hellespont.

VIII. The springs of Bonarbashy may possibly have been the AOIAI ПнгAI of Homer; but they are not sources of the Scamander. They are, moreover, warm springs.

IX. The source of the Scamander is in Gargarus, now called Kasdaghy, the highest mountain of all the Idæan Chain.

X. The Altars of Jupiter, mentioned by Homer, and by Eschylus, were on the hill called Kúchûnlú Tépe, at the foot of Gargarus; where the ruins of the temple now remain.

XI. Palæ Scepsis is yet recognised in the appellation Esky Skúpshu.

XII. Æné is the Aineia of Strabo; and Æné Tépe, perhaps, the Tomb of Æneas.

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XIII. The extremity of the Adramyttian Gulph inclines round the ridge of Gargarus, towards the north-east; so ́ that the circumstance of Xerxes having this mountain upon his left, in his march from Antandrus to Abydus, is thereby explained.

XIV. Gargarus affords a view, not only of all the Plain of Troy, but of all the district of Troas, and a very considerable portion of the rest of Asia Minor.

Transactions at the Dardanelles-Public Sports — Inscriptions·
Voyage down the Hellespont-Tenedos-Lectum Promontory-
Lesbos-Erythræan Straits-Chios-Straits of Samos-Burning
Vapour-View of Patmos and the Cyclades-Pirates — Cos—
Plane Tree- - Inscriptions Fountain of Hippocrates - Greek
Manuscripts-Beautiful piece of Antient Sculpture-Voyage from
Cos to Rhodes-Ruins of Cnidus-visited by Morritt― and by
Walpole-Carpathian Isles-Rhodes.

WE were detained some time at the Dardanelles, waiting

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Transactions at the Dar

for the vessel from Constantinople: this came at last, so
deeply laden with stores, for the supply of our army in danelles.
Egypt, that we were almost afraid to venture on board. She
had the name of The Taurida, and was literally nothing

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more than a covered boat. Mercantile speculations make bold adventurers. Few persons would have volunteered an expedition across the Mediterranean in such a bark; but our good captain comforted us with the assurance, that Columbus sailed across an unknown ocean in a skiff of less promise. He had cast anchor higher up the Straits, towards the Sea of Marmora, where vessels from Constantinople lie secure from all winds, and find better ground. There is no good anchorage at the Dardanelles. Captain Castle had fitted up a small apartment in the stern, to serve as a cabin; and had placed one enormous gun in the prow, to intimidate pirates; observing dryly to us, as we surveyed it, that we should be lucky if it did not carry the gib-boom under water, in rough weather. It was amusing to notice the sort of speculation, which occupied not only the hold, but every part of the vessel, where it was possible to cram an article of food or merchandize. Barrels of Adrianople tongues, candles, tea, sugar, cheese; butter of the Ukraine, already in an oily state, and oozing through the sides of the casks; wine, onions, cordage, iron, biscuit, cloth, pens, paper, hard-ware, hats, shoes, tobacco, and fruit. A few sheep were, moreover, huddled together close to the gun in the forecastle.

During our stay at the Dardanelles, we had lived in the house of the Neapolitan Consul. This respectable old man put in force a stratagem which may serve to shew the extraordinary power of imagination over diseases of the body. Being troubled with an intermitting fever, brought on during our excursion in Troas, I had been observed by

him

him to go frequently to a clock, in the antechamber of
our apartment, watching for the hour when the paroxysm
began. This used to occur exactly at noon.
One morning
he put back the clock a full hour. At twelve, therefore,
I had no fear of my fever, for the index pointed to eleven;
and at one, although the hour seemed to be present, the
paroxysm did not take place. Unfortunately, pleased by
the success of his experiment, he told me what had happened;
and after the usual interval, the fever again returned.
By the same manner, all the charms used among the lower
order of people in this country, operate in the cure of agues.
The Tomb of Protesilaus, as related by Philostratus', was
antiently resorted to in healing a quartan fever.

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We received great civilities from the Pacha. He sent one of his officers with our Greek servant, to collect some marbles we wished to remove from Troas; a work generally attended with difficulty, owing to a notion the Turks have, that Christians can extract gold from such stones. The ceremony of his daughter's marriage with the son of an Asiatic Viceroy, called, by way of eminence, The Pacha of Asia, and said to be Lord over a hundred villages, took place during the time we remained. Upon this occasion, public sports were exhibited, and we had an opportunity Public Sports. of seeing a magnificent celebration of the game of Djirit, the tournament of the Turks. This very antient pastime might possibly have given rise to tilts and tournaments.

It

(1) Philostrat. in Heroïcis.-See also Chandler's Ilium, p. 142.