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ASIA MINOR. 



applying the account given by Pausanias in his first book to this 

 tumulus. He there tells us, that an inhabitant of Mysia had in- 

 formed him, that the sea, breaking into the tomb of Ajax on the 

 side next the shore, made the entrance into it not difficult to any 

 one who wished to view the gigantic remains of that hero. 



The stones of which the internal building is formed are not squared 

 or chiselled, and great masses of them roughly cemented with mortar, 

 still adhering together, incumber the inner chamber or vault. The 

 entrance into it in the side of the tumulus is about five feet in height, 

 five feet broad, and the passage about six feet long, before it termi- 

 nates in the vault which is lower and narrower. My fellow-traveller 

 was extremely sceptical on the appropriation of this mound to the 

 sepulchre of Ajax. 



From the top of this tumulus we had a good view of the whole 

 line of coast, and of the Scamandrian plain, called by our guides, 

 Mendere Sou Deresi, the valley of the Mender ; two ridges of hills, 

 one terminating at this point (Rhceteum), and the other at Yenicher 

 (Sigeum) bound it ; the breadth here is about four miles. 



We had thus in a few short hours enjoyed the satisfaction of 

 visiting the two extremities of the naval station of the Greeks, 

 explored the tombs of Achilles, Patroclus, and Ajax, and crossed the 

 Scamander. 



We now descended to the base of that ridge of hills which ter- 

 minates at En Tepe, and soon came once more to the little mean- 

 dering stream, Camara Sou, or the river of the Aqueduct. We 

 crossed it by a small bridge, and proceeded to the village of Coum 

 Keui, the sandy village, about two miles south of En Tepe. Very 

 near the village are extensive ruins of ancient public buildings 

 scattered over the plain ; they are probably on the site of Ilium. 

 The columns now fallen and broken are deeply fluted, and of the 

 Ionic and Corinthian orders, generally about three feet and a half in 

 diameter. 



In the house of a Turk of this village I found a Greek inscription 

 on a block of marble ; the letters were very small, and without any 



