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ground was covered to a consideraljle extent. 
These consisted of the most beaiitilul Doric 
pillars, whose capitals and shafts, of the finest 
white marble, were lying in the utmost disorder. 
Among them we also noticed some entire shafts 
of granite. The temples of Jupiter being always 
of the Doric order, we might suppose these 
Ruins to mark the site of di fane consecrated 
to Mean Jove; but Doric was evidently the 
prevailing order among the antient edifices of 
the Troas, as it is found everywhere in the 
district, and all the temples in that part of 
Plirijgia would not have been consecrated to 
the same Deity. The Ruins by the Callifat 
Water have not been hitherto remarked by any 
traveller; although Akerhlad obtained, and pub- 
lished in a very inaccurate manner, an Inscription 
which we also copied here. It is as old as 
the Archonship of Euclid'. As it has been 
already published, both in the account of the 
Greek Marbles preserved in the Vestibule of the 
University Library at Cambridge^, and also in 
the Appendix to a Dissertation on the Soros 
of Alexander^, the introduction of the original 
legend here would be deemed an unnecessary 
(7) See the late Professor Parsons opinion, a"> given in the Author's 
account of " Greek Marbles" at Cambridge, p. 50. 
(8) Ibid. 
(9) " Toinb of Alexander," Append. No. 4. p. 158. 
