57s -WONDERS OF ART. 
If the Poems ot Homer, with reference to the ^ 
Troy, have similarly associated an artificial i 
natural mound, a conclusion seems warranted, ^ ^ to ^ 
are the objects to which he alludes. This app®^ j /“ 
the case in the account he has given of the ^ 
and the Mound of the Plain. , rfK’, . 
“ From this tomb we descended into the pl^‘ [ 
our guides brought us to the western side of ’ ’ 
southern termination, to notice a tumulus, less j-piitt ’J, 
tlian the last described, about three hundred 
mound, almost concealed from observation 
tinually overflowed, upon whose top two small 
were then growirg. unt^’c))' I 
“ We now came to an elevated spot of j 
rounded on all sides by a level plain, watered by ^ 
lifat Osmack, and which tliere is every reason ggs, 
the Simolsian. Here we found, not only the 
also the remains of an ancient citadel. Turk* 
employed raising enormous blocks of marble, 
tions surrounding the place; possibly the 
constructed by Lysimaclius, who fenced New H' 
wall. All the territory within these foundations 
by broken pottery, whose fragments were 
ancient vases now held in such high estiinat' pt 
Greek medals had been discovered in conseque ^ 1 |a! 
recent excavations made there by the "I biks^ jjjg 
medals, bearing indisputable legends to designate ^ ^ 
by whom they were fabricated, have also, >b 
stances of their discovery, a peculiar connexio^^.^jg, 
ruins here, they may be considered b*. 
tolerable certainty, the situation of the city tb 
belonged. These mins evidently appear to be , 
of New Ilium ; whether we regard the , 
by their situation, as accordant with the text^ 
the discovery there made of medals of the ' jj,i« ¥ 
The conclusions relative to Troas, drawn ^ . ft' 
writer, are as follows ; — “ That the fiver 
Scamander of Homer, Strabo, and Pliny. ^ jp tj'^. 
vigalilis of Pliny flows Into tlie ArchipdaSb,^ *' 
of Sigeum. That the AIanteum, or sltb^gtr^ 
remains, answering the description given ‘ j,e 
ancient autliors, and thereby determining *1®" 
