38 TABLEAU de la PLAINE de TROTE 



The Plain. 



In advancing from Alexandria Troas, along the coall, M. 

 Chevalier's attention was particularly attradled by a tumulus, 

 or barrow of immenfe fize, at a confiderable diftance*. This is 

 now called Udjek Tepe, from Udjek, the name of the adjacent 

 village. From the top of this at noon, (Ch. III.), he took a re- 

 trofpedl of the ruins of Alexandria, now at the diftance of more 

 than four leagues ; towards the north he faw a large plain, en- 

 coinpaffed with delightful hills ; to the eaft the foot of the moun- 

 tains of Ida ; and to the weft the ^gean Sea, the iflands of Te- 

 nedos, Imbros, Samothrace, Lemnos, and all the way to the 

 fummit of Mount Athos. 



Dr Dallaway remarks, that " from the high ground near 

 " Alexandria Troas, the view of Tenedos, and of the fea, with 

 " Udjek Tepee, a vaft tumulus above the plain of Troy, on the 

 " right under the horizontal line, is particularly pleafing." 

 (p. 326.). And that " in the progrefs the country foon be- 

 " comes lefs woody, and fpreads into a wide heath, from whence 

 " the whole plain of Troy is feen." 



When M. Chevalier, in the courfe of his inveftigation, ai"- 

 rived at the eaftern extremity of this extenfive plain, on the emi- 

 nence above the modern Turkifh village called Bounar-bafhi, and 

 where he at laft concluded the citadel of ancient Troy to have 

 been placed, he obtained a view of the whole extent of it ; and 

 it feemed to him of a femicircular fhape f. " Of the two chains 



"of 



ing the Caftles of the Dardanelles ; the aqueduft of Herodes Atticus; the circuit 

 of the wall flill alnioft entire ; the thickets of Valonea trees ; are all likewife re- 

 marked by Dr Dallaway, or were mentioned to me by Mr LisTON. The for- 

 mer obferves, that " the whole fite is now a thick foreft of Valonea, or dwarf oak, 

 " peculiar to the Levant." Of ihis flirub the latter brought away fome feeds. 



* See the Map. -j" M'' LisTon adds, " on e-ich fide." 



