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of Troas. From its top may be traced the ^^;^^- 
course of the Scamander; the whole chain of Ida, ^ y ' 
stretching towards Lectwn'; the snowy heights 
of Gargarus ; and all the shores of the Hellespont 
near the mouth of the river, with Sigeum, and 
the other tumuli upon the coast. From this 
tumulus we descended once more into the Plaiii 
of Troy, and came in half an hour to a village 
called Erhessy. In the street of this village Erkcsa;/, 
there is a marble Soros, quite entire. This was 
(2) Mr. /?«^o/e crossed the Idermi Chain, as appears by the following 
extract from his Journal, relating to an cxcvirsion he made from 
Alexandria Troas to the Adramyltian Gulph. 
" From the village of Kistambol, where on a stone sarcophagus, by 
the hut in which 1 lived, 'were the letters POSTVMIA VENEREA, 
I set off to cross the part of Ida which separated the road from the 
Adramyttian Gulph. This ridge of mountains is called, by Strabo, 
« atro To~J hix,rou pa^is avanivouffo, ■z^o; rhv "iSsjv. p. 871' In au 
hour's time I reached Yalagick, where, on a stone by a fountain, 
I read the words i^ignifer, Imperator, Decurioni, well cut. The rocks 
near the road are of granite. I continued my route S.E. and E.S.E. 
for seven hours, passing small streams running down from the moun- 
tains : by the sides grew tiie N'crium (which Hasselquist asserts is the 
tree referred to by David, Psalm i. 3.^ and the Plane. The Terebin- 
thus grew above, on the rocks. 1 then reached a hamlet, Sunovassi, 
encircled by mountains : here we procured a shed for our party to pass 
the night, which consisted of myself, a servant, a guide, and a black 
soldier who was to accompany me to Adramyttium. We were able to 
find some bread, which the Turks eat unleavened ; some pelmez, and 
some rice. The inhabitants of the village, who were Turks, shewed no 
disposition to annoy us, nor any impertinent curiosity, although in that 
recess of Ida they could see but few European travellers. Corn, olives, 
cotton, and maize, the ears of which are eaten roasted, were the produce 
of their fields. From the mountain side they got fir, and the wood of the 
arbutus, to supply their hearths. At half past eight the next morning 
I left Sunovassi ; at nine, I began to ascend Dikili-Dah, part of Ida. 
Nothing 
