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“Into the spacious Hellespont, that all 
“Who live, and who shall yet be born, may 
view 
“Thy record even from the distant waves. 
Odyssey, XXIV. 80 to 90. 
We think the most probable conjecture is, 
that the larger of the two tumuli covers the 
urn of Achillesand Patroclus, and the smaller 
one that of Antilochus. These tumuli were 
opened by a Jew, employed for the purpose 
by Chevalier, and an urn and some curious 
ornaments, reported to have been found in 
them, are described in his work on the Troad, 
and engravings of them published: amongst 
his plates ; but as the Jew is supposed to have 
played on the credulity of his master, we 
shall omit any further notice of the circum- 
stance. 
Much has been said and written on the 
epithet “broad,” so frequently applied by 
Homer to the Hellespont, and the most in- 
genious, as well as frivolous explanations, 
have been invented to save the credit of the 
poet, in giving so extravagant an appellation 
to so narrow a sea. But the Hellespont is 
not a sea; to those standing upon its banks, 
it conveys no idea but that of a river, and 
whilst they watch its mighty current 
“Roll darkly heaving to the main,” 
