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molifhed from top to bottom, its whole interior flrudlure was 

 to be difcerned. This is fuppofed to be the monument of Aj ax, 

 and is called by the Turks In-tepe-Gheuleu, the monument of the 

 marfh. It is fituated at Rhoeteum, a promontory or tongue of 

 land advancing into the plain oppofite to the Sigean promon- 

 tory. (Ch. IV. XIV.). 



Dr Dallaway, after crofling the Simois the fecond time, 

 paffed over an extenfive level of ploughed fields, and Gouln-fui^ a 

 brook, which empties itfelf into the fea near Jn-tcpe, or the tomb 

 of AjAx Telamonius. " This tumulus,^'' fays he, " is now irre- 

 '' gularly fhaped. Near the top is a fmall arched way almofl 

 " choked up with earth, which was the entrance into the vault, 

 " and over it a broken wall, where was once a fmall fepulchral 

 " fane called Aianteiim.''^ He thinks the whole to be of a much 

 more modern date than the death of Ajax. 



Dr Sibthorpe, in his letter to Mr Liston, writes thus : " I 

 " write to your Excellency in hafte, our veflel toffing about op- 

 " polite the tomb of Ajax, where it has been juft drove by a 

 " hard gale of wind*.'' 



These monuments, with the others formerly mentioned up- 

 on the hill of Troy, appear to have made a flrong imprefTion on 

 M. Chevalier's mind ; and many of the Members of this So- 

 ciety will recolledl, that, in converfation, he ufed to lay great 

 ftrefs on them. They are objecfls very confpicuous and ftriking 

 to thofe who fail along the coaft, near the entrance to the Helle- 

 fpont, as Mr Liston particularly informed me. They feem to 

 have made a ftrong impreifion likewife on Dr Dallaway, who, 

 on viewing them from HalileU^ near the village of Thimbrek-keuy, 

 (p. 340.), remarks, that the fuccelTion of the five tumuli, under 

 the diftant horizon, tend more than any other proof to afcer- 

 tain the Trojan war. He fays afterwards, (p. 349.) : " Of all the 

 " proofs advanced by M. Chevalier, the tumuli, fo conneded 



" with 



* See Appendix, No. V. 



