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" of hills which embrace it, one appeared to run in a direction 

 " towards the promontory of Teni-cheyhr^'' (or Sigeum), " and 

 " the other towards the point of Jn-TepS-Gheulu^^ (or Rhoe- 

 teum). The part of the hills to the right, reaching between 

 the villages of Jtche and Tchibl/ic^ appeared more cheerful than 

 the reft, and which he had no doubt compofed the Callicolone 

 of Homer. From this ftation he defcried " the iflands of Te- 

 *' nedos and Imbros, Samothrace and Lemnos, the high top of 

 " Mount Athos, and the Thracian Cherfonefus beyond the Hel- 

 " lefpont," (Ch. IV.). As to the foil of the plain, he obferved 

 it CO be " of a rich and blackifli colour, and of ^reat fertility." 

 The village of Bounar-hajhi he reckoned to be " at the diftance 

 " of four leagues from the fea." (Ch. XVII.). 



Mr Hawkins and Dr Sibthorpe took horfes at Koum-kaleh 

 on the coaft, and crofTed the plain to the village of Bounar-hajh'i ^ 

 in three hours, " an extent,*^ fays Dr Sibthorpe, ^' of nine 

 " miles*." Mr Hawkins, in his fecond letter to Mr Liston, 

 affures him that Tenedos is to be feen from the hill of Troy, 

 and that even " the whole coaft of the ifland is vifible, from the 

 " northern to the fouthern point."" 



Dr Dallaway remarks, that " the whole plain of Troy, 

 " from the height faid to have been the citadel, is of uniater- 

 " rupted extent," (p. 346.). From the promontory alfo of Te- 

 ni-cheyhr^ or Sigeum, at its lower extremity, the fame i-nteUigent 

 traveller looked over the plain, the whole fcope of which he 

 commanded. " Its broadeft diameter," fays he " may be five 

 " or fix, and its longeft twelve miles to Atcbe-keuy. It is natu- 

 " rally verdant and fertile, and now very generally cultivated, 



excepting near the marfh, wliich occupies a fifth part." 

 (p. 347.). This 1 take to be the mar£h at the mouth of the Si- 

 mois, of which afterwards. 



* See their Letters, Appendix, No.,V.. 



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