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earth ; in each, however, by many mouths. The water proved 

 equally cold in them all : neverthelefs in winter one is faid to 

 be warm. 



We faw the place where the courfe of this river is diverted 

 by an artificial canal to the Archipelago. We are now about to 

 fliape our courfe for Samothraki. The bearer, our janifTary, fets 

 out alfo on his return to the Dardanelles, where he will confign 

 this to the care of our Conful, to whofe great attention and civi- 

 lities, as well as to thofe of his uncle Mr Kaim, we are much 

 indebted. 



I BEG leave to add, how much I am flattered by the civilities 

 paid me at Conftantinople, and with what truth I have the ho- 

 nour to be, &c. 



J. Hawkins. 



Dr John Sibthorpe, ProfeJJbr of Botany in the Vniverftty of Ox- 

 ford, to his Excellency Robert Liston, His Britannic Majejiy^s 

 Amhajfador at Conftantinople* 



Dear Sir^ 2>oj/, Sept, 15. 1794. 



I AM juft returned from Troy, as perfuaded as a faithful 

 MufTulman who has made his pilgrimage to Mecca, or as a 

 pious crufader who has been at Jerufalem, that my eyes have 

 beheld the tombs of thofe mighty heroes Homer has fung near 

 two thoufand years fince. It was the " Campus uhi Trojafuit,^* 

 The piety of former ages raifed tombs more lafling than marble 

 or brafs, which time has not deftroyed. Troy and its temples 

 have been fo completely rafed, that not a column, or even a 

 ftone that has been ufed in architecture, remains to tell its fite ; 

 and it is from the tumuli only, with their relative fituation to 

 the Simois and Scamander, that we are to learn where it once 



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