PLAIN OF TROY. I33 
city from the village of the lliensians) by the chap- 
discovery of these Ruins. They may have been ■- .- ■ 
the same which Kanffer noticed in his map', 
by the title of FiUe de Constantine; but they are 
evidently the remains of New Ilium; whether 
we regard the testimony afforded by their 
situation, as agreeing with the text of Straho; 
or the discovery here made of the medals of the 
eit)'. Once in possession of this important 
point, a light breaks in upon the dark labyrinth 
of Troas; we stand with Strabo upon the very 
spot whence he deduced his observations con- 
cerning other objects in the district; looking 
down upon the Simohian Plain, and viewing in 
front of the city, towards the south-iuest, the 
junction of the iiuo rivers; " one flowing towards 
Sigevm, and the other towards Rhceteum,^' pre- 
cisely as described by him ; being guided, at 
the same time, to CaUicolone, the village of the 
Ilieans, and the sejmlchres of ALsyetes, Batieia, 
and Ilus, by the clue he has afforded ^ From 
the natural or the artificial elevation of tlie 
(1) See the Map. pul)lished by ArrowsmiLh, of The Plain of Troy, 
from an original design by Kauffer ; also the Vignetle to this Chapter. 
(2) The Reader is requested to pay particular attention to the smaJl 
sketch which has been engraved for a Vignette to this Chapter, in order 
to observe the extraordinary coincidence between the actual survey of the 
J'Uin, and the description given by Strabo, in lii«; account of Troa--, 
lib. xiii. pp. 85.';, 861. Ed. Ox. 
