144 DISTRICT OF TROAS. 
CHAP, country, of one being hot, and the other cold; 
V ly .»' that the women of the place bring all their 
garments to be washed in these springs, not 
according to the casual visits of ordinary 
industry, but as an antient and established 
custom, in the exercise of which they proceed 
with all the pomp and songs of a public 
ceremony; it becomes perhaps /jroiai'Ze'. The 
remains of customs belonging to the most 
remote ages are discernible in the shape and 
construction of the wicker cars, wherein the 
linen is brought upon these occasions, and 
which are used all over this country. In the 
first view of them, we recognised the form 
of an antient car, of Grecian sculpture, in the 
Vatican Collection at Rome; and this, although 
of Parian Marble, has been so carved as to 
resemble wicker-work; while its wheels are 
an imitation of those solid circular planes of 
timber used at this day, in Troas, and in many 
parts of Macedonia and Greece, for the cars of 
the country. They are expressly described 
by Homer, in the mention made of Prianis 
litter, when the king commands his sons to bind 
(l) The full description of such a ceremony occurs in the sixth 
book of the Odyssey; where it is related, that the daughter oi Alc'mous, 
with all the Maidens of her train, proceeds to wash the linen of her 
family. According to Pausanias, there was an antient picture to be 
seen in his time, in which this subject was represented. 
