186 DISTRICT OF TROAS. 
CHAP, from this place. As we passed through this 
^-' ^ last town, a Turii offered for sale, a sardonyx, 
exhibiting three distinct layers qf brown and of 
white chalcedony : upon the upper layer was 
an intaglio, representing the well-known figure 
oi Mercury with the purse ; a subject extremely 
common upon gems found in Constantinople^. 
It was well executed, but the price exorbitant, 
therefore we declined the purchase. We here 
visited the Intendant of the Agha, and travelled 
the same day as far as Turhnanlt, where we 
passed another night with the hospitable owner 
of the mansion who entertained us so well upon 
a former occasion. 
From Turhmanle we returned by the way of 
^ne ; and thence, intending to visit Alexandria 
Ber^as. "Troas, took thc road to Bergas^, distant two 
hours from jEne, where we halted for the night. 
By the public fountains along this route, and 
(1) The peculiar locality of certain mythological subjects, as repre- 
sented upon the gems oi Antient Greece, has not perhaps been noticed ; 
yet the subjects of the gems are almost as local as those upon the medals 
of the country. Figures and symbols of Ceres are found in Cyprus ; 
in Athens, the triple bust of Socrates, Alciblades, and the Sicilian 
\>hysic\^.\\ Raucondas; in Constantinople, representations of a Cres- 
cent with one or three stars, of Mercury with the jmrse, heads or 
whole lengths of Esculapius, Apollo with the Chariot of the Sun; in 
Alexandria and other parts of Egypt, Scarabm, with various hiero- 
glyphic figures, &c. 
(2) Ui^y^i. 
