170 DISTRICT OF TROAS. 
CHAP, description of the ascent of Juno kom Ledum 
> — V ' to Gargarus ' ; by a series of natural eminences, 
unattainable indeed by mortal tread, but pre- 
senting, to the great conceptions of poetical 
fancy, a scale adequate to the power and dignity 
of superior beings. 
Upon all the points of this mountain, former 
adventurers have raised heaps of stones, as 
marks of their enterprise^. These were now 
nearly buried in snow. The author availed 
himself of one of them, to ascertain the tem- 
perature of the atmosphere, by placing his 
thermometer in the shade. It was now mid- 
day, and the sky was without a cloud. The 
mercury soon fell to the freezing point, but it 
did not sink lower during the time he remained. 
Dangerous^ As hc dcsccnded, not a vestio-e of his ascent 
situation ot ^ o 
the Author, could bc disccmed ; and he unfortunately passed 
without noticing the particular part of the steep 
leading to the third point of the mountain, 
CO Iliad S. 283. 
(2) During' the heat of summer, the gjlacier on this mountain is 
dissolved, and the ascent rendered therehy much more easy. The 
Earl of Aberdeen, as he informed the author, afterwards succeeded in 
visiting' the summit without difficulty, by choosing a more advanced 
season of the year. The guides, however, thought proper to relate 
that they never had been able to reach tVie highest point; perhaps to 
avoid the trouble to which the attempt would expose them. 
