148 DISTRICT OF TROAS. 
CHAP, the Reader supposes a gradual rise to take 
V ,^- , ' place from what he has defined as the relative 
situation of the lower to the upper city ; although 
a deep and rocky dingle intervenes, never yet 
subjected to any effort of human labour, that 
might serve to connect the two places with 
each other. The antiquities on these heights 
are certainly very remarkable, and worthy 
every degree of attention a traveller can bestow 
upon them. We shall now proceed to describe 
their appearance. 
Proceeding in a south-easterly direction from 
the sloping eminence on which Bonarhashy is 
situate, we crossed the dingle here mentioned; 
and then began to climb the steep, whereon it 
has been supposed the citadel of Priam stood. 
Upon the very edge of the summit, and as it 
Antient wcre hanging over it, is an antient tumulus, 
constructed entirely of stones, heaped, after the 
usual manner, into a conical shape, and of the 
ordinary size of such sepulchres : this, although 
various, may be averaged according to a cir- 
cumference, for the base, equal to one hundred 
yards ; and these are nearly the dimensions of 
the base of this tumulus, which has been called 
the Tomb of Hector'. That this name has been 
(l) It is uinety-three yarJs in circunifereuce. 
