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about thirty-five feet in diameter, and is yet entire ; this spot is about 

 three miles from Palaio Atche Keui, where are the ruins of the temple 

 of Apollo of Ilium. The rocky bed in which the river here runs, its 

 bold abrupt banks thus united by a lofty arched aqueduct, and crowned 

 with wood, form a striking scene, which I regretted my want of power 



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After remaining some time to admire the beauty of this spot, we 

 returned to Palaio Atche Keui, having heard from our guides that 

 there were more ruins of ancient buildings within a mile of those we 

 had just seen. But we found merely a Turkish cemetery, to which 

 some ancient fragments had been taken to be employed as tomb- 

 stones. One of the marble slabs, however, we found contained a 

 Greek inscription in hexameter and pentameter verses, and we de- 

 cyphered the following words : , 



TIKTE TEXNA TON APISTONA : , 



MTNTOPA nATPIAOS A1H5 



OION ZETS ilPSEN OION 0MHP02E*T 



We now set out for Bounarbashi, where we were to halt for the 

 night, and going in a south-westerly direction, we passed three 

 tumuli, to which our guides gave the names of Mai Tepe, Asar- 

 lack Tepe, and Khaina Tepe ; Asarlack Tepe, near the village of New 

 Atche Keui, is of much larger dimensions than the others ; it ap- 

 peared about thirty feet high, flat at top, where it is about one hundred 

 feet across. It is in the form of a truncated cone. 



When we had proceeded about three miles and a half from Atche 

 Keui, we again reached the Mendere Sou, on that broad river which 

 intersects the plain of Troy. We found it here very wide, though 

 not so deep as to prevent our fording it on horseback. This river our 

 guides called Mendere and Scamandros, and they here told us that its 

 source was in the snow-covered mountain of Kaz-Dag, which, accord- 

 ing to their computation, was three days' journey from us, probably 

 about sixty miles : they also said that the Camara Sou had it source 

 in that lofty mountain. At about a mile from the ford of the Men- 

 dere Sou, we came to the village of Bounarbashi. It is elvated 



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