92 FROM CONSTANTINOPLE 
CHAP. TXecTug, observes that it is not counte- 
III. 
' -y,- ■■ » nanced by Eustathius, nor by any of the old 
scholiasts '. 
Coming opposite to the bay, which has been 
considered as the naval station used by the 
Greeks during the war of Troy, and which is 
situate on the eastern side of the embouchure 
of the Mender, the eye of the spectator is 
attracted by an object predominating over every 
other, and admirably adapted, by the singu- 
larity of its form, as well as by the peculiarity 
of its situation, to overlook that station, to- 
gether with the whole of the low coast near the 
mouth of the river. This object is a conical 
mound, rising upon a line of elevated territory, 
behind the bay and the mouth of the river. It 
has therefore been pointed out as the Tomb of 
j^syetes, and it is now called Ucljek Tepe'^. If we 
had never heard or read a single syllable con- 
cerning the war of Troy, or the works of 
Homer J it would have been impossible not to 
(1) nXaru xiita^ est aqua salsa, Atlieriteus, 'iiaa<TtXXit Ss xai yXvKU 
vSu^ «« ^XxtU;. (Vid. Animad Casaub. in lib.ii. cap. iv. Athen. Deipn.) 
Then he quotes Hcsychius and Aristotle, (Meteorol. lib. ii.) and adds, 
" Fortasse usus hie vocis crXariij ab eorum interpretatione ortus est qui 
apud Ilomerum -rXarvv 'EXXw-jroirot exponebant salsum : quos sequitur 
hie Athena>us : non ita Eustathius, nee grammaticorura cohorg tola." 
(2) See the Vignelle to this Chapter. 
