132 PLAIN OF TROY. 
CHAT, xiie appearance of the structure exhibited that 
V— V ' colossal and massive style of architecture which 
bespeaks the masonry of the early ages of 
Grecian history. All the territory within these 
foundations was covered by broken pottery, 
whose fragments were parts of those antient 
terra-colta vases which are now held in such 
high estimation. Here the peasants said they 
had found the medals which they had offered to 
us ; and that after heavy rains, it was a very 
common thing to meet with them. Many had 
been discovered in consequence of the recent 
excavations made there by the Turks, who were 
at this time removinof the materials of the old 
foundations, for the purpose of constructing 
works at the Dardanelles. As these medals 
plainly shew, by their indisputable legends, the 
people by whom they were fabricated, and have 
also, in the circumstances of their locality, a 
probable reference to the Ru'ms here, they enable 
us to fix, with tolerable certainty, the situation 
of the city to which they belonged. Had w^e 
observed, in our route from Tchiblack, precisely 
the line of direction mentioned by Strabo, and 
continued in a due course from east to tvesi, 
instead of turning towards the souih into the 
Simoisian Plain to visit the village of Callifat, 
we should have terminated the distance he has 
mentioned, of thirty stadia, (as separating the 
