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of a hill called Beyan Mezaley, near the town, in <^hap. 
the midst of a beautiful grove of oak trees, ^ -^-' ,' 
towards the village of Callifat. Here the Ruins ^^^r^ 
of a Doric Temple of white marble lay heaped 
in the most striking manner, mixed with broken 
Slela', Cippiy Sarcophagi, Cornices and Capitals of 
very enormous size, entablatures, and pillars. All 
of these have reference to some peculiar sanctity 
by which this hill was antiently characterized. 
It is of a conical form, and stands above the 
village of Tchihlach, seeming to be as large as 
the Castle Hill at Cambridge. The first inquiry 
that suggests itself, in a view of this extraor- 
dinary scene, naturally involves the original 
cause of the veneration in which the place was 
antientlv held. Does it denote the site of Pi-obai.ie 
■^ ... Site of 
Pagus Iliensium, whose inhabitants believed Pagus 
that their village stood on the site of Antient 
Troy^f This place was distant thirty stadia^ 
from the New Ilium of Strabo ; and the distance 
corresponds with the relative situation of this 
Hill and Palaio-Callifat, or Old Callifat, where 
Neiv Ilium stood ; as will hereafter appear. Or 
may it be considered as the eminence ^ called by 
(2) Ibid. 
(3) Three English miles and six furlongs. 
