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nary fize, which already has been mentioned *. He had no no- 

 tion at firft that this was the fame with the monument of jEsy- 

 ETES. He contented himfelf with meafiu'ing its dimenfions, 

 and enjoying the magnificent profpecft from the top of it. Its 

 height he found to be not lefs than loo feet, and its outUne to 

 be 400 paces. He remarked it to be of a conic fhape, and quite 

 regular. After his third journey to the Troad, he had no hefi- 

 tation in concluding it to be the monument of .^sy.etes. 

 (Ch. III. XXL). 



Dr Dallaway fays, that " the tomb of JEsyetes, according 

 " to Pococke, or, as it is now called, from the adjacent village, 

 " Udjek-Tepee^ is a barrow of extraordinary height and fmooth 

 " furface, and was the fituation from whence Polites, the fon of 

 " Priam, reconnoitred the Grecian camp, and the oppofite ifland 

 " of Tenedos, with its harbour and promontory f ." 



Five other 'Tumuli. 



After M. Chevalier had examined the new canal of the 

 Scamander, he proceeded, from the place of its difcharge into 

 the jEgean Sea, along the coaft, towards the village of Teni-cheyr^ 

 in order to have a nearer view of feveral high mounds of earth, 

 which had attracted his attention from the top of Udjek-tepe^ or 

 monument of iEsYETEs. The firft he arrived at, called Be- 

 Jhik-tepe, is not by any means fo high as that laft mentioned. 

 He next came to that, which, upon the map, he has called An- 

 tilochi tumulus, not finding any Turkifli name for it, and which 

 leemed to be of the fame dimenfion with Bejhik-tepe, He then 

 proceeded to the village called ieni-cheyr, ftill inhabited by; 

 Greeks, and fituate upon the extremity of the famous Sigean 



promontory, 



* See above, p. 38. f Iliad, II. 793, feq. 



