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mollflied from top to bottom, its whole interior flrudlure was 

 to be difcerned. This is fuppofed to be the monument of Ajax, 

 and is called by the Turks In-tepc-Cheiileii, ibe monument of the 

 marp. It is fituated at Rhoeteum, a promontory or tongue of 

 land advancing into the plain oppofite to the Sigean promon- 

 tory. (Ch. IV. XIV.). 



Dr Dallaway, after croffing the Simois the fecond time, 

 pafied over an cxtenfive level of ploughed fields, and Gouhi-fui,, a 

 brook, which empties itfelf into the fea near Jn-tcpe, or the tomb 

 of Ajax Telamonius. " This tumulus^'' fays he, " is now irre- 

 '' gularly fhaped. Near the top is a fmall arched way almofl 

 " choked vip with earth, which was the entrance into the vault, 

 " and over it a broken wall, where was once a fmall fepulchral 

 " fane called Aianteum.''^ He thinks the whole to be of a much 

 more modern date than the death of Ajax. 



Dr Sibthorpe, in his letter to Mr Liston, writes thus : " I 

 " write to your Excellency in hafte, our veflel to fling about op- 

 " pofite the tomb of Ajax, where it has been juft drove by a 

 " hard gale of wind*." 



These monuments, with the others formerly mentioned up- 

 on the hill of Troy, appear to have made a ftrong impreflion on 

 M. Chevalier's mind ; and many of the Members of this So- 

 ciety will recoUedl, that, in converfation, he ufed to lay great 

 flrefs on them. They are objedls very confpicuous and flriking 

 to thofe who fail along the coaft, near the entrance to the Helle- 

 fpont, as Mr Liston particularly informed me. They feem to 

 have made a ftrong imprelfion likewife on Dr Dallaway, who, 

 on viewing them from Hnlilel'iy near the village of Thimhrek-keiiy, 

 (p. 340.), remarks, that the fuccelhon of the five tumuli, under 

 the diftant horizon, tend more than any other proof to afcer- 

 tain the Trojan war. He fays afterwards, (p. 349-) : " Of all the 

 " proofs advanced by M. Chevalier, the lumuU, fo connecfted 



" with 

 * See Appendix, No, V. 



