38 TABLEAU de la PLAINE de TROrE 



The Plain, 



In advancing from Alexandria Troas, along the coaft, M. 

 Chevalier's attention was particularly attra(5led by a tumulus , 

 or barrow of immenfe fize, at a confiderable diftance *. This is 

 now called Udjek Tepe^ from Udjek, the name of the adjacent 

 village. From the top of this at noon, (Ch. III.), he took a re- 

 trofpedl of the ruins of Alexandria, now at the diftance of more 

 than four leagues ; towards the north he faw a large plain, en- 

 compafTed with delightful hills ; to the eaft the foot of the moun- 

 tains of Ida ; and to the weft the -fl^gean Sea, the iflands of Te- 

 nedos, Imbros, Samothrace, Lemnos, and all the way to the 

 fummit of Mount Athos. 



Dr Dallaway remarks, that " from the high ground near 

 " Alexandria Troas, the view of Tenedos, and of the fea, with 

 " Udjek T'epee, a vaft tumulus above the plain of Troy, on the 

 " right under the horizontal line, is paiticularly pleafing." 

 (p. 326.). And that " in the progrefs the country foon be- 

 " comes lefs woody, and fpreads into a wide heath, from whence 

 " the whole plain of Troy is feen," 



When M. Chevalier, in the courfe of his inveftigation, ar- 

 rived at the eaftern extremity of this extenfive plain, on the emi- 

 nence above the modern Turkifh village called Bounar-bapi^ and 

 where he at laft concluded the citadel of ancient Troy to have 

 been placed, he obtained a view of the whole extent of it ; and 

 it feemed to him of a femicircular fhape f. " Of the two chains 



"of 



ing the Caflles of the Dardanelles ; the aqueduft of Herodes Atticus ; the circuit 

 of the wall ftill almoft entire ; the thickets of Valonea trees ; are all likewife re- 

 marked by Dr Dallaway, or were mentioned to me by Mr Liston. The for- 

 ttier obferves, that " the whole lite is now a thick forell of Valonea, or dwarf oak, 

 *' peculiar to the Levant." Of this {hrub the latter brought away fome feeds. 



* See the Map. ^ Mr LisTON adds, " on each fide." 



