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CHAP. 
VI. 
Splendid 
Remains 
of PubUc 
Balne^b. 
DISTRICT OF TROAS. 
After all that has been removed, it is truly 
wonderful so much should remain. The ruins 
of the place, although confused, are yet consi- 
derable. The first object, appearing in the 
approach towards the city from Chemale, is the 
Aqueduct of Herodes Atticus, formed of enormous 
masses of hewn stone. The walls of the city 
exhibit the same colossal style of masonry. 
Part of one of the gates yet remains, on the 
eastern side, whose ruins have been mistaken 
for those of a temple : it consists of two round 
towers, with square basements, supporting 
pedestals for statues. Immediately after passing 
this entrance, and entering within the district 
once occupied by the city, we observed the 
ruins of baths, with the reticulated work of the 
Romans upon the stucco of the walls. Broken 
marble Soroi lie about, of such prodigious size, 
that their fragments seem like rocks among the 
Valani oaks now covering the soil. But in all 
that exists of this devoted city, there is nothing 
so conspicuous as the edifice vulgarly termed 
by mariners The Palace of Priam; from an 
erroneous notion, prevalent in the writings of 
early travellers, that Alexandria Troas was the 
Ilium of Homer \ This building may be seen 
(l) Belon, De La Falle, Lithgow, and others, fell iuto this strange 
mistake. It is an error, however, which prevailed hefore they lived- 
Lithgow caused his own portrait to be represented in the midst of 
the 
