RUINS OF THE PLAIN OF TKOY. 



conjecture already offered, that tlit stream, on tho batiks of which 

 those edifices wfre raised, and theso TOWS offered, was the Simo'is 

 of the antients, some regard was necessarily intended, both to the 

 ruins here situated, and the inscription to which reference is now 

 made. A certain degree of collateral, although no positive evi- 

 dence, may possibly result from the bare mention of places and 

 ceremonies, connected by their situation, and consecrated by their 

 nature, to the history of the territory where Simo'is flowed. 



Near the same place, upon a block of Parian marble, I found 

 another inscription, but not equally perfect. 



We afterwards proceeded to the Greek village of Callifat, situ- 

 ated near the spot where the Callifat Osmack joins the Mender. 

 In the streets and court yards of this place were lying several 

 capitals of Corinthian pillars ; and upon a broken marble tablet, 

 placed in a wall, I noticed part of an inscription in metre ; the 

 rest having perished. 



While I was copying it, some peasants of the place came to me 

 with Greek medals. They were all of copper, in high preserva- 

 tion, and all medals of Ilium, struck in the time of the Roman 

 emperors. On one side was represented the figure of Hector com. 

 bating, with his shield and spear, and the words EKTflPIAlEflN ; 

 and upon the other, the head either of Antoninus, Faustina, Seve- 

 rus, or some later Roman emperor or empress. As there were 

 so many of these Iliean medals, I asked whore they were found ; 

 and was answered, in modern Greek, at Palaio Callifat, Old 

 Callifat, a short distance from the present village in the plain to- 

 wards the east. I begged to be conducted thither ; and took one 

 of the peasants with me as a guide. 



We came to an elevated spot of ground, surrounded on all 

 ides by a level plain, watered by the Callifat Osmack, and which 

 there is every reason to believe the Simoisian. Here we found, 

 not only the traces, but also the remains of an antient citadel. 

 The Turks were then employed raising enormous blocks of marble, 

 from the foundations* surrounding the place ; possibly the identical 

 works constructed by Lysimachus, who fenced New Ilium with a 

 wall. The appearance of the structure exhibited that colossal and 

 massive style of architecture which bespeaks the masonry of tho 

 early agos of Grecian history. All the territory within these 

 foundations was covered by broken pottery, whose fragments were 

 parts of thos<- antient vases now held in such high estimation. Hera 



