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of very remarkable size and sitaation drew our chap. 
_ IV. 
attention, for a short time, from the main object 
of our pursuit. 
This Tumulus, of a high conical form and very- 
regular structure, stands altogether insulated. 
Of its great antiquity no doubt can be enter- 
tained, by persons accustomed to view the ever- 
lasting sepulchres of the Antients^ By the 
southern side of its base is a long natural mound 
of limestone : this, beginning to rise close to the 
artificial tumulus, extends towards the village of 
Callifat, in a direction nearly from north to south 
across the middle of the Plain. It is of such 
height, that an army, encamped upon the eastern 
side of it, would be concealed from all ob- 
servation of persons stationed upon the coast, 
by the mouth of the Mender. It reaches nearly 
to a small and almost stagnant river, hitherto 
unnoticed, called Callifat Osmack, or Callifat 
Water, taking its name from the village near to 
which it falls into the Mender : our road to this 
(3) " Mr. Bryant says, the tumuli on the Plain of Troyare Thracian. 
In addition to the passages in Strabo which prove the Phrygians, the 
inhabitants of the country, to have been in the custom of erecting 
tumuli, the following passage from Atheneeus maybe added. 'You 
may see every-where in the Peloponnesus, but particularly at Laceda:- 
iiioji, large heaps of earth, which they call the Tombs of the Phrygians, 
who came with Pelops.' 1. xiv. i>.0:?3." TVulpolc's MS. Journal. 
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