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hand, in the approach to JEnc, is a most stupen- chap. 
dous tLimuhis, called jllnc Tcpe, literally JEneas ■ 
Tomb. Some Jens called it also Sovran Ttpe, or aJeXoirb. 
Tojfih of the King. The word Sovran has perhaps 
an Italian origin. Tcpe, signifying, in Turkish, 
an HEAP or tomb, is evidently the same with 
lia(pog : and tradition seems to afford, with 
regard to this tomb, as good a foundation for 
believing it to be the sepulchre of ^ncas, as 
Strabo found in the authority of Demetrius of 
Scepsis for his royalty in the country. The 
inhabitants of jEne pretend that they find 
medals in considerable number : we could hear 
of none, however, that had been seen of gold or 
of silver ; therefore the medals cannot be of very 
antient date. In the wall of the Khan, or Inn, 
we observed a marble, with the following imper- 
fect Inscriptions 
AYZ I E 
O n A T H P 
T O M N H M E 1 O r4 
H S E A A K PYn I 
TA I O Z 
In a ccsmetery close to the road leading 
from jEne to Turkmanle, the inhabitants had 
used natural as well as artificial pillars for grave- 
stones. We saw several columns of basalt 
upright in the earth, mixed ^Yith others of 
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