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ings, about thirty feet long and forty-five deep ; they have probably 

 been reservoirs or cisterns to hold water for the garrison ; as a well in 

 one of them still supplies in part the town of Beyram. 



On the brow of the Acropolis are scattered some broken columns 

 of granite, which are fluted, and among them are some bas-reliefs on 

 blocks of granite ; the figures are about twenty inches in height ; one 

 part of the subject represented seems to have been a procession to 

 a sacrifice ; there are three naked figures, with their arms extended, 

 marching in the same direction ; and another looking back to them. 

 The style of work is Egyptian. The exposure to the sea-air has 

 corroded the sculptured surface. On another block of granite were 

 two bulls fighting ; their horns are locked together : on another were 

 three horses running ; on another two winged sphinxes, resting each 

 of them a foot on a kind of candelabrum placed between them, and 

 looking towards each Qther. A symposium or banquet is also 

 sculptured on a block of granite ; a youth is seen presenting a cup 

 to a bearded man who is reclined on a couch * ; a large vase or 

 amphora is near him ; and various figures are in the back-ground, 

 forming altogether the representation of some funeral scene or 

 ceremony. These fragments have probably composed the frize of a 

 granite temple which has stood on this citadel ; the columns are 

 about three feet in diameter ; parts of the shafts remain on their 

 original site, so that a person conversant with ancient architecture 

 might easily trace the plan and different details. 



reference made to the Scamandros ; we find the river also mentioned on the coins of 

 Alexandria Troas, AAEEANAPE&N 2KAMANAP02 (Cuper, Harpoc, 216.) Is this 

 regard paid to the little rivulet at Bounarbashi, or to the river which rises in great 

 majesty and beauty from the recesses and caverns of Ida ? — E. 



* The marbles and monuments of antiquity on which are seen figures of persons 

 reclining on couches, in the act of drinking, genio indvlgentes, refer to the opinion, that 

 the deceased so represented were in a state of happiness, kv 'HXva'w usSio), " ut beatorum 

 conditionem exprimerent, eos accumbentes sculpserunt," says Cuper. See a remarkable 

 passage to this purpose in Plato, 1. 2. de repub. xaXX^rov «pTrj s - /xj<r$ov |xe'fl>jv diwvtov. — E. 



