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had reason to reorret that we had done so : for chap. 
III. 
his services would have materially assisted our ^ ■■^' > 
researches in the country. We then had some 
further conversation, in which he mentioned 
the names of Englishmen whom he had seen ; 
and expressed a wish to procure some English 
pistols, for which he said he would give all the 
antiquities in Troas. After this we retired. 
The Pasha went on board his boat, and, as we 
followed him in ours, the guns of the castle 
fired a salute. 
The day was most serene ; not a breath of 7°^*^.? 
•^ ' down the 
wind was stirring, nor was there a cloud to be Hellespont. 
seen in the sky. No spectacle could be more 
grand than the opening to the jEgean Sea. 
The mountainous Island of Imhros, backed by 
the loftier snow-clad summits of Samothrace, 
extended before the Hellespont, towards the 
north-west. Next, as we advanced, appeared 
Tenedos upon the luest, and those small Isles 
which form a groupe opposed to the Sigean 
Promontory. Nothing, excepting the oars of 
our boat, ruffled the still surface of the water : 
no other sound was heard. The distant Islands 
of the jEgean appeared as if placed upon the 
surface of a vast mirror. In this manner we 
passed the Rhostean Promontory upon our left, 
and beheld, upon the sloping side of it, the 
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