llf, PLAIN OF TROY. 
Straho the beautiful Colone, five stadia ' in cir- 
cumference, near to which Simois flowed ; and 
consequently Tchibhck, as the Pagus Uiensium ? 
The Callicolojie was rather more than a mile 
distant* from the F'illage of the Ilieans, and stood 
above it; exactly as this hill is situate with 
regard to Tchiblack^. 
It will now be curious to observe, whether 
an Inscription we discovered here does not 
connect itself with these inquiries. It was 
found upon the fluted marble shaft of a Doric 
pillar, two feet in diameter; so constructed, 
as to contain a Cippus, or inscribed slab, 
upon one side of it*; exhibiting the following 
characters : 
(1) Rather more than half a mile. 
(2) Ten stadia, 
(3) It is a feature of Nature so remarkable, and «o artificially 
characterized at this hour, that future travellers will do well to give 
it due attention. In our present state of ignorance concerning TroaSy 
we must proceed with diffidence and caution; nothing has been 
decided concerning the side of the Plain on which this hill stands, and 
where all the objects most worthy of attention seem to be concen- 
tiated. The author is convinced, that when the country shall have 
he&a properly examined on the north-eastern side of the Mender ^ 
instead of the south-western, many of the difficulties which now impede 
a reconciliation of Homer's Poems with the geography of the count»y 
will be done away. This has not yet been attempted. 
(4) The Cippus, or inscribed part of the pillar, was two feet eleven 
inches long, and two feet four inches wide. 
