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promontory, where, jufi: as he was entering the Church, he faw 

 the Sigean infcription, fo well known to the learned ; and op- 

 poflte to it the bas relief of marble, of the fined workmanflilp, 

 of which Dr Chandler has given an exadl account ; and there 

 is an elegant engraving of it in Ionian Antiquities. 



Dr Dallaway, too, faw this bas relief, as well as the Sigean 

 infcription ; which laft, he obferves, is now placed at the door 

 of a low hut, confecrated as a chapel : and the letters are nearly 

 worn out, the marble having been fo long ufed as a bench to 

 fit on. Mr LisTON told me, that the effacing feems to be pro- 

 moted by a drop which falls from the eaves of the chapel. 



From the top of the promontory M. Chevalier had ano- 

 ther extenfive view of the plain of Troy, and faw particularly 

 the mouth of the Simols, as already mentioned ; alfo the Turk- 

 ifli caflle of Koum-kaleh^ mentioned by all the fubfequent travel- 

 lers. At the foot of the promontory he remarked two other tu- 

 muli^ of which the neareft is underftood to be the monument of 

 Achilles; and the more diflant one M. Chevalier fuppofed 

 to be that of Patroclus. Others take it for that of Peneleus ; 

 the afhes of Patroclus having been depofited in the fame mo- 

 nument with thofe of Achilles. 



" Advancing foine furlongs over the promontory," fays 

 Dr Dallaway, "we faw the barrow (bepik-tepe) called the 

 " tomb of Antilochus by Strabo. On the other fide of the 

 " village, under the brow of the hill, crowned by half a dozen 

 " windmills, near the fea, are two fmaller tumuli ^ generally fup- 

 " pofed to be thofe, one of which is attributed, by the ancient 

 " geographers, to the illuftrious friends Achilles and Patro- 

 *' CLUS, and the other to Peneleus the Boeotian." (p. 350.). 



After remaining fome days near Koum-kaleh, M. Chevalier 

 paffed the Simois ; and, travelling for half an hour, came to a 

 fifth tumulus of the fame kind with the reft, having a large aper- 

 ture in its fide, which he entered. The monument being de- 



g 2 moliflied 



