By the Rev. A. C. Smith. 



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of Troy, we find a large tumulus said to be the tomb of JEsietes, so 

 large as to meet your eye wherever you turn throughout the whole 

 extent of the plain/ and from which Polites reconnoitred the 

 Grecian armament : 



" Who from iEsetes' tomb observ'd the foes 

 High on the mound ; from whence in prospect lay 

 The fields, the tents, the navy and the hay." * 



Beyond this stand the smaller barrows commonly assigned to 

 Antilochus, Achilles, 3 Patroclus and Ajax : 3 one of which has been 

 recently opened by its English proprietor, Mr. Calvert, HBM Consul 

 at the Dardanelles, and calcined human bones found therein. 4 More 

 recently the vast tumulus of Hanai Tepeh in the Troad has been 

 examined, likewise by Mr. Calvert, who notwithstandingitsenormous 

 size, entertained grave doubts of its being a natural hill, as was 

 usually supposed, and as Dr. Forschammer thought ; who in 

 his observations on the Topography of Troy, published in the 

 Journal of the Geographical Society for 1842 5 says "that its 

 immense size rendered its being artificial improbable, though " (he 

 adds) "excavation alone can settle this point." Through Mr. 

 Calvert's exertions not only its artificial, but its sepulchral character 

 has been proved, (as he has announced in a recent Number of the 

 Archgeoiogical Journal,) 6 calcined human bones having been found 

 therein in such marvellous quantity, as to induce the supposition 



1 Diary in Turkish and Greek waters, by the Right Hon. the Earl of Carlisle, 

 pp. 89, 90. 



* Pope's Homers Iliad, ii., 961. 



2 When Alexander landed on the coast of Troy his first care was to pay mag- 

 nificent funeral honours to the shade of the hero Achilles, during which he 

 himself, in imitation of the ancient rites, ran naked and on foot round the barrow 

 which covered the hero's remains. 



" That mighty heap of gathered ground 

 Which Amnion's son ran proudly round." [Byron.] 



The barrows which are erected on the shores of the Hellespont to Hector and 

 Ajax, are, according to Kohl, exactly like the barrows which commemorate 

 Odin and Thor, and other Scandinavian heroes. [Lost Solar System of the 

 Ancients discovered, ii., 246.] 



3 Lord Carlisle's Diary in Turkish and Greek waters, p. 89, 90. Byron's Bride 

 of Abydos, Canto ii., 4. 



* Carlisle's Diary, &c, p. 158. 

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