156 DISTRICT OF TROAS. 
CHAP, capture of Troij'. At four hours' distance from 
/- ' Bonarbashy we came to the town of jEne, the 
yEKEiA. ^NEiA of Slratcr, situate upon a river falling 
into the Mender, which Mr. fVood has described 
as being itself the Scamander\ The appearance 
of the town is very pleasing, being ornamented 
with cypresses, and backed by lofty rocks and 
mountains. We were surprised in finding a 
place of so much consequence so remotely 
situate. Its remarkable appellation, still com- 
memorating the name of JEneas, and having 
borne the same appellation in the time of 
Augustus, speaks more forcibly the truth of the 
story of Troy, than any written document. It 
is an existing evidence, against which there is 
no possible appeal. Its situation exactly cor-^ 
responds with the position assigned to it by 
Slrabo, who relates its distance from Pal^e 
Scepsis, a name also preserved in the modern 
appellation, Eshy Shiipshu*. Upon the right 
(l) Slrah. Geog:r. lib. xiii. p. 873, ed. Ox. 
(^) Ibid. p. 869. ^-/iff) yovv Thv YlaXca^xn'^n r7,s fiiv At/i'ia; ^li^^nt 
dstf^KOVTet ffTC^IOVS. K. &. X. 
(3) Descript of the Troade, p. 323. 
(4) Fifty stadia, or six miles and a quarter. The Greek word riaXa* 
and the Turkish Eshy have the same sig^nification. The TurliS often 
translated epithets connected with the names of places mto their own 
laiiguag^e, while they retained the substantive unaltered. Thus the 
Palcc Scepsis of Slrabo still beairs the name with them of Esh^ 
Skilpshu. 
