DISTRICT OF TROAS." IGl 
tlie water, which was quite warm ; yet bufH^loes chai'. 
were swallowing it greedily, and seemed to . 
delight in the draught they made. Its tempe- 
rature is probably always the same. We found 
it equal to 69° of Fahrenheit. The shafts of two 
pillars of granite, of the Doric order, stood, one 
on each side of the fountains ; and half the ope?- 
culum of a marble Soros ' lay in the v/all above 
them. Some peasants brought to us a few 
barbarous medals of the lower ages, with effigies 
gf Saints and Martyrs. 
An hour after leaving this place we came to uei/m. 
Beyramitch, a city belonging to the Pasha of the 
Dardanelles, and present capital of all Troas. 
It is a large place, filled with shops. The 
houses seemed better built and more regularly 
disposed than in Constantinople. Ail the land 
around belongs to the Pasha before mentioned, 
whom the Porte has nearly ruined by extorted 
contributions. In the yard of the Khan, or Inn, 
is a inarhle cglumn, exhibiting a variety of the 
Doric order, which we had then never seen, 
excepting in Thoas. Instead of being fluted. 
(1) The substitution of Soros for Sarcophagus is not made with the 
smallest disposition to pedantry, but as it strictly ap[>lies to the 
antient Greek Tomb. Some remarks upon this subject will be found 
ju the following Chapter. 
