PLAIN OF TROY. 
and, by giving its exact distance from Sigeum, 
not only adds to our conviction of its identity, 
but marks at the same time, most decisively, 
the position of the Portus jichcEorum'. In all 
that remains of former ages, there are few 
objects more powerfully calculated to affect the 
mind by local enthusiasm than this most inr 
teresting Tomb. It is impossible to view its 
sublime and simple form, without reflecting 
upon the veneration in which it was so long 
held; without picturing to the imagination a 
successive series of mariners, of Kings and 
Heroes, who from the Hellespont, or by the 
shores of Troas and Chersonesus, or upon the 
Sepulchre itself, poured forth the tribute of their 
homage; and finally, without representing to 
the mind the feelings of a native, or of a 
traveller, in those times, who, after viewing 
the existing monument, and witnessing the 
instances of public and of private regard so 
constantly bestowed upon it, should have been 
told that the age was to arrive when the 
existence of Troy itself, and of the mighty 
dead entombed upon its Plain, would be consi- 
dered as having no foundation in truth. 
(!) " Fuit et Aeantium, a Rkodiis condihim in altera cornu {Rfutfn) 
/Ijace ibi scpulto, xxx. sladiorum intervallo tt Sigeo, et ijisa in staHone 
classis sueE." Sic. leg. Casauh. in Plln. lib. v. c. 30. 
