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author reached the second point. Still a long 
and laborious track was before him ; but the 
greatest difficulty was over. He advanced with 
eagerness over an aerial ridge, toward the 
highest point of all, where no vestige of any- 
living being could be discerned. Here the 
ascent was easier than before; and in a few 
minutes he stood upon the summit. What a view from 
spectacle! It seemed as if all European Turkey, Pointof 
and the whole of Asia Minor, were really tahi. 
modelled before him on a vast surface of 
glass. The great objects drew his attention 
first ; afterwards he examined each particular 
place with minute observation. The eye, 
roaming to Constantinople, beheld all the Sea 
of Marmora, the mountains of Priisa, with 
Asiatic Olympus, and all the surrounding ter- 
ritory : comprehending, in one survey, all 
Propontis and the Hellespont, with the shores 
of Thrace and Chersonesus, all the north of the 
jEgean, Mount Athos, the Islands of Imhrus, 
Samothrace, Lemnos, Tenedos, and all beyond, 
even to Eithoea ; the entrance to the Gulph of 
Smyrna, almost all Mijsia, and Bithynia, with 
part of Lydia and Ionia. Looking down upon 
Troas, it appeared spread as a lawn before 
him. He distinctly saw the course of the 
Scamander through the Trojan Plain to the 
sea. This visible appearance of the river, like 
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