1 i(J PLAIN OF TROY. 
CHAP, were blooming upon the soil. Upon the Tomb 
,- ' itself we noticed the silvery Mezereon, the Poppy, 
the beardless Hypecoum, and the Field Star of 
,Betlilehem\ 
Ham Eihj. From the Aianieuni we passed over a healthy 
.country to Hald Elly, a village near the Thym- 
hrius, in whose vicinity we had been instructed 
to seek for the remains of a Temple once sacred 
to the Thymhrean j4pollo. The ruins were con- 
spicuous enough, and they seemed to be rather 
the remains of ten temples than of one^. The 
earth to a very considerable extent was covered 
by subverted and broken columns of marble and 
of granite, and every order of architecture was 
visible in their remains. Doric, Ionic, and 
Corinthian capitals lay dispersed in all directions, 
and some of these were of great beauty. We 
observed a bas-relief representing a person on 
horseback pursued by a winged figure ; also a 
beautiful representation, sculptured after the 
same manner, of Ceres in her car drawn by two 
(1) Daphne urge idea. Anemone coronaria, Hi/pccoum imberle, Orni- 
tkogalum arvense. 
(2) Our artist, Monsieur Preaux, as well as another of our com- 
pany, Don Tda Lusieri, of Naples, then employed in making drawings 
for the British Ambassador, although both accustomed to the view of 
architectural remains, declared, they could reconcile the Ruins at 
HaUl Elhj to no account yet given of the country, antieut or modern. 
