134 PLAIN OF TROY. 
CHAR territory on which the city stood, (an insulated 
' object in the Plain,) we beheld almost every 
land-mark to which that author has alluded. 
The splendid spectacle presented towards the 
we^/by the snow-clad top o^ Samothrace, towering 
behind Imbrus, would baffle every attempt of 
delineation : it rose with prodigious grandeur ; 
and while its setherial summit shone wdth 
indescribable brightness in a sky without a 
cloud, it seemed, notwithstanding its remote 
situation, as if its vastness would overwhelm all 
Troas, should an earthquake heave it from its 
base. Nearer to the eye appeared the mouth 
of the Hellespont, and Sigeum. Upon the south, 
the Tomb of jEsyetes, by the road leading to 
jilexandria Troas^; and less remote, the Sca- 
MANDER, receiving Simois, or CaUifat Water, 
at the boundary of the Simo'isian Plain. Towards 
the east, the Throsmos, with the sepulchres of 
Batieia and Ilus : and far beyond, in the great 
Idean chain, Gar gams opposed to Samothrace^, 
Sirab. Gengr. lib. xiii. p. 863. Ed. Ox. 
(2) It is only by viewing the stupendous prospect afforded in these 
classical regions, that any adequate idea can be formed of Homer's ix)\\ers 
as a painter, and of the accuracy which distinguishes what JMr. JFood 
(Essay on Corner, p. 132.) terms his " celestial geography." Neptune, 
placed on tlie top of Samolhrace, commanding a prospect of Ida, Trot/, 
and thefieet, observes Jupiter, upon Gargarus, turn his back ujion Troas- 
What is intended by tliis averted posture of the Cod, other than that 
Cargann 
