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winding road, sixteen yards in breadth, leads chap. 
from the remains of these temples to the top of 
the Kushiinlu. All the way up may be noticed 
the traces of former works; but upon the 
summit, there is a small oblong area, six yards 
in length, and two in breadth,, exhibiting 
vestiges of the highest antiquity. The stones 
forming the inclosure are as rude as those of 
the walls of Tirynthus in Argolis; and the 
whole is encircled by a grove of venerable 
oaks, covering the top of the cone. The 
entrance to this area is from the south : upon 
the east and west, on the outside of the trees, 
are stones, ranged like what we, in England, 
call Druidical circles. From hence the view is 
grand indeed. Immediately before the eye 
is spread the whole of Gargarus; seeming. 
" Ida is allowed, iu Herodotus, to tneao the summit Gargarus. 
Now, from comparing the above passages with Strabo, p. 843. where 
Gargara is said to be a town on Gargarus, a height of Ida, (see 
Casaubon's note, there ;) and p. 872. where it is said to be a promon- 
tory of the Adramyttian Gulph ; and consulting Hesychius, where 
Gargarum is a height of Ida, and a city of the Trojan district near 
Antandros, we get the following particulars relating to this summit of 
Ida. It was near the coast, for it was near Antandros, which was on 
the coast, in a recess of it (Strabo, p. 872.), and the town Gargara on 
the coast was upon this mountain ; so that Xerxes, on passing by 
Antandros, would pass by this mountain on his left ; and on coming 
into the Iliean territory, would have some way to go before he reached 
Troy; for Alexandria Troas was thirty-five miles from Antandros 
(Anton. Itin.) ; and Troy was still farther." 
JValpolca MS. Journah 
