ILLUSTRATED and CONFIRMED. si 



*' with the Sigean and Rhoetean promontories, and the outpofts 

 " of the Grecian camp, are the mofl fatisfadtory. The fite is 

 " likewife confirmed by four others, which, to whatever heroes 

 " they may be conjedlurally attributed, with no additional 

 " weight to the argument, give a certain degree of internal evi- 

 " dence, and afcertain the fcene of great miUtary tranfadions, 

 " or vicinity to a large city." 



Tbe Valley of Thymbi-a. 



On quitting the monument of Aj ax at the Rhoetean promon- 

 tory, and after taking a view of a fmall adjacent harbour called 

 Karanlik-Umani, tbe Jhut haven, M. Chevalier continued his 

 journey to the village of It-Guelmes or Erin-keuy. It appeared 

 to be of no confequence to the end in view to proceed in that 

 diredlion any farther, and he returned, in order to trace the cir- 

 cumference of the great plain. On his way back, he foon de- 

 fcended into a delightful valley, called Th'mbrek-dere, the valley 

 of Thimbrek, or Thymhra. On beginning to afcend towards the 

 fource of a rivulet, which runs through it, he was flopped on 

 its left bank, oppofite to the village of HaUleli, by a heap of 

 ruins, among which were fome bas reliefs, columns, capitals^ 

 entablatures, and infcriptions. He took them for the ruins of 

 the temple of Apollo Thymbrseus, and copied fome of the in- 

 fcriptions, which are now publiflied in the third A^olume of our 

 Tranfacflions. 



Mr I-iSTON faw thefe ruins, and told me that they are very 

 confiderable ; fome fragments of marble ones ftill remaining. 

 Every year the inhabitants carry pieces of thefe to place over 

 the dead in the adjoining cemetery, near the ruins of an old 

 mofque ; fo that foon nothing will remain but the large pieces. 

 M. Chevalier, in his map, has, in Mr Liston's opinion, pla- 

 ced 



