And on the Trojan Plain. 211 
heroes ran only once, and not thrice round 
the city, or possibly the whole circumstance 
may be a fiction of the poet: at all events it 
is a matter of trifling importance. 
At a short distance from the remains of the 
old wall, on the rocks of Bournabashi, and 
without it, is atumulus of loose stones, which 
Chevalier has called the tomb of Hector. It 
may possibly be the tomb of that hero, for in 
the Iliad it is described as being a heap of 
stones, near, but not in the city. 
Clarke rather hastily asserts that if this 
wall be the remains of the Trojan one, the 
tumulus cannot be that of Hector; and that 
if this be the tumulus of Hector, that cannot 
be the wall of Troy :—because, says he, Hec- 
tor was buried within the city. Every line, 
however, of Homer’s account of the funeral- 
rites of Hector shows that his tomb was not 
within the city. Besides the unusual custom, 
and the danger of having so large a funeral- 
pile lighted within the city, Heetor would 
not have been “borne out :”—'Troy would 
not have “thronged forth;” nor need spies 
have been set to guard against an attack 
of the Greeks :—all which things are 
represented to have taken place. (Iliad 
XXIV. at the end.) . 
At the distance of four or five miles from 
