194 DISTRICT OF TROAS. 
front of the building faces the west: behind, 
that is to say, upon the eastern side, were three 
magnificent arched portals. The walls here, on 
each side of the center arch, were supported 
upon a vault containing six arches, which yet 
remain entire. From this description, it is 
evident that a plan of the building might be 
delineated, exhibiting its original form. No 
very accurate representation has yet been 
engraved of any part of it. We were inclined to 
believe, with Chevalier, that it was intended for 
haths, as a grand termination of the Aqueduct of 
Herodes Atticus\ The opinions of Pococ^^e and 
Chandler, that it was a Gymnasium for the 
instruction of youth, are thereby rather con- 
firmed than confuted. The balnea of the Antients, 
particularly among the Romans, were often col- 
leges of science and martial exercise : such 
were the structures erected by Diocletian and 
by Caracalla; and by the Emperor Adrian, 
according to Pausanias, as an ornament to the 
city oi Corinth"". 
Other Ves 
ti";es of the 
On the south side of this building, and very 
City. near to it, we found the remains of a circular 
edifice, resembling those structures at Baii^, in 
Campania, now called temples, but primarily 
baths. Half of this edifice remained in an entire 
(1) Plain of Troy, p. 10, (2) Pausan. in Corinth, c, 3. 
