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"** more confiderable of the two was Dios-tape, which he inter- 

 " prets the divi?ie Tovih^ MrLisTON obferved, that the inhabi- 

 tants fpoke of both monuments by the appellation of dtheo tepe^ 

 which, in their language, has no other meaning than the two 

 tombs. He therefore concluded, that M. Chevalier had been 

 deceived by the fimilarity of the found. This is alfo noted in 

 Dr Dallaway's book, with an affertion, (but not of Dr Dal- 

 LAvvAY himfelf), that the miftake proceeded from M. Cheva- 

 lier's ignorance of modern Greek ; which I have the greateft 

 reafon to believe to be without foundation. 



In examining carefully the furface of the rock of Balli-dahii 

 M. Chevalier thought he '* diftinguiflied foundations of an- 

 " cient buildings, the mafonry of which had affumed the con- 

 ** fiftence of the rock itfelf" Mr Liston, on a narrow infpec- 

 tion, was convinced that nothing could be difcerned but the real 

 fubftance of the rock, which is indeed rough, of a chalky ap- 

 pearance, and, at firft fight, feems as if there was mortar adhe- 

 ring to it. He brought away a fragment of it, which I have 

 here in my cuftody ; and the gentlemen prefent may judge. 



It feems furprifing that there fhould be a total difappearance 

 of every ruin or veftige of a building, to mark the fite of fo fa- 

 mous a city. Strabo, however, gives a good reafon for this, 

 as follows : 'Ore ya^ ZK'n'i'Troo^'/iyAvm tuv -aukKu TCoXiav, oh rsKi&jg ^\ 

 xarsa-'Trcca'f/.ivuVi ravrrig ^^\z (2a.^oc,jv a,variT^af/^f/,ii/7ig, ol Xi'^oi 'Zoii/reg s/'j 

 ryjv ZKZivuv avaX^i^ic f/.ireiii^^'/j(rocv. K^yaKkva-Ara. youv (pci<r) rov M<ri;- 

 Kfivulov \k tuv sxil^sv Xi^m to ^lynov izrziy^Krai. (L. XIII. p. 895.)* 

 For when all the cities around were laid wajle, but not entirely de- 

 molijhed j and while this one was totally overturned, all the Jiones 

 were carried off from it to rebuild thofe others. Accordingly, they 

 Jay, that Arch jean ax of Mitylene with the Jiones taken Jrom thence 

 fortified Sigeum. Dr Dallaway, fpeaking of the city of Ilium, 

 once fituated near the jundlion of the Scamander and Siinois, and 

 which owed its origin to Alexander and Lysimachus, fays, 



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