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" Bounar-haJId'i opened upon us very pleafantly from the ford of 

 " the Simois, which we palled within a furlong of the chifthk 

 *' of Hadgi Me h met Agha, the prefent proprietor of a do- 

 *' main producing near L. 5000 SterHng per annum^ and inclu- 

 " ding httle lefs fpace, and the identical ground of the kingdom 

 " of old Priam *. His houfe is mean, but many columns were 

 " difperfed about it, which had been coUedled from the fites of 

 " adjacent cities. From the village," adds he, " the hill rifes 

 " rapidly, and foon becomes an infulated mountain. The lofty 

 " wall of Troy, and the Scsean Gate, interfedled the modern 

 " village of Bounar-bajhi. Afcending the hill, thickly ftrewn 

 " with loofe ftones for the fpace of a mile, the firft objed: on the 

 " brow is a ftony hillock, which Chevalier, with no apparent 

 " reafon, calls the tomb of Hector. It has been opened and 

 " examined, but we could not learn the refult. There are others 

 " covered with grafs, appropriated likewife to Trojan heroes." 

 Dr D ALL AW AY has given a beautiful defign and engraving of 

 the tumulus faid to be Hector's. This learned traveller is of 

 opinion, that " upon the area and the intermediate ground 

 " from the village of Bounar-baJhi^ there is undoubtedly fpace 

 " enough for fuch a city as Troy is defcribed to have been." 

 (p. 345.). And he obferves, that " the level falls abruptly on 

 " the fouth, with a precipitate cliff, into a deep ravine, forming 

 " a mural rock, now almoft covered at its bafe by the ftream 

 " and fands of the Simois, for the length of forty or fifty yards, 

 " and completing a fortification rendered impregnable by na- 

 ture J 



* M. Chevalier had faid, (Ch. XVII.) that " near the hill were fituate the 

 " gardens of Priam, where Lycaon, when cutting wood, was furprifed by AcHlL- 

 " LES; find on that fpot are ftill fituate the gardens of the Agha of Bounar-bafhi, 

 " who, after forty centuries, fucceeds to the king of the Trojans, &c, {Forty, 

 among the Errata, is corredted thirty : which Dr Dallawat, not obferving, has 

 fuppofed the author guilty of a miftake), Mr Liston told me that he ate grapes in 

 this very place. 



