166 DISTRICT OF TROAS. 
CHAP, point of all the Id^an Chain extends itself into 
the plain, in such a manner, that the hill at its 
base, upon which these Ruins appear, is, in 
fact, a part of Gargariis itself. The baths serve 
to illustrate the history of the place, and there 
are warm springs in the neighbourhood. The 
original temple was therefore, probably, a very 
antient fane of Jupiter Liberator, situate near to 
the heights of Ida, on the site of which, in later 
ages, these buildings were afterwards raised. 
The most remarkable circumstance is now 
to be related ; and it seems to refer us to super- 
stitions connected with the veneration in which 
the top of Gargarus was antiently held, as the 
seat of the Immortal Gods'. A spacious 
(1) Vibius Sequester, in his treatise De Montilus, speaks of Gar- 
garus as the summit of Mount Ida : " Gargarus in Phrygid Ida 
tnontis cacumen." And Maussacus, in his Notes upon Plutarch {De 
Fluv.), who cites this passage, also observes, as a comment upon the 
word Va^ya^ov, " Non Ida, sed ejus cacumen aut fa^tigium Gargarus 
dictum fuit. Hesychius, Grammaticorum princeps, rd^ya^ev, ocx^ut^^iod 
i^evs"l^>i;." The fact is, however, that an actual view of the country 
affords the best comment upon the antient Geographers, who have 
not clearly pointed out the nature of this part of Phrygia. The 
district called Ida consists of a chain of different mountains, one of 
which, separately considered, bore the name of Gargarus; and this 
is higher than any of the rest. Freinshemius, in his Supplement to 
Quintus Curtius, affirms, that places thick set Avith trees were 
antiently called Id^ : " Nam condensa arboriltts loca Idas anti(/ui 
dixere" Quint. Curt. Suppl. lib. ii. Freinsh. 
In Mr.' fPTilpole's Journal, there is the following Note upon this 
subject : 
" Ida 
