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represented the figure of Hector combating, 
with his shield and spear, and the words 
EKTHPiAIEfiN ; and upon the other, the head 
either of Antoninus, Faustina, Severus, or some 
later Roman Emperor or Empress. As there 
were so many of these Iliean medals^ we asked 
where they were found ; and were answered, in 
modern Greek, at Palaio Callifat (Old Callifat), 
a short distance from the present village, in the 
plain towards the east"^. We begged to be con- 
ducted thither; and took one of the peasants 
with us, as a guide. 
We came to an elevated spot of ground, sur- Rorhainsof 
1 - n • 1 1 11 T Xcwiliuvi,. 
rounded on all sides by a level plain, watered 
by the Callifat Osmack, and which there is every 
reason to believe was the Simo'isian Plain. Here 
we found, not only the traces, but also the 
remains of an antient citadel. Turks were then 
employed in raising enormous blocks of marble, 
from the foundations which surrounded this 
eminence ; and these foundations may have 
been the identical works constructed by Lysi- 
viachus, when he fenced New Ilium with a wall. 
(2) Every traveller who has visited Greece, will be aware of the im- 
portance of profiting by the mention of the word Palaio, as applied to the 
name of any place. It is a never-failing indication of the site of some 
antient city ; and so it proved in the present instance. 
