200 DISTRICT OF TROAS. 
brought from Alexaiidria Troas, and it is now- 
used as a public cistern. It is of one piece of 
stone, seven feet in length, three feet and a half 
wide, and, without including the operculum, rather 
more than three feet in depth. The following 
Interesting • • >-, 7 i • i 
inscrip. Inscription upon it, m Greek characters, is beauti- 
fully cut, and in a very perfect state. It serves 
to confirm what the author lately stated con- 
cerning the nature of the Grecian, and Egyptimi, 
Soros. In the chamber of the great Pyramid of 
Cheops there is a conditory of granite of the same 
form and size ; and another, once the Soros of 
Alexcmder the Great, mentioned by Herodian, is 
now in the British Museum. 
Nothing could exceed the beautiful scenery which I beheld on all sides, 
as 1 continued my ride, occasionally casting my eye downwards upon 
forests of pines, and on villages hanging on the side or placed at the 
feet of the mountains. On reaching the summit, the Sea and Island of 
Mitylene presented themselves ; and in three hours' time, from the 
moment of ascending, I reached the shore, along which I continued to 
ride till a quarter before four, when I turned up to the N.E. On the 
sea side were pieces of fir, cut down from Ida, for ship building. At 
half past four I arrived at Avgilar, a small village, w here I slept. 
There is a Greek Inscription placed sideways in the outer wall of the 
Mosque. The next day, at the distance of an hour and a half, I passed 
some warm baths, which I was not able to examine, as some Turkish 
women were there bathing. These may be the hot waters to which 
Galen says an invalid, who lived not far from Pergamus, was sent, ^De 
Sim. Med.)). 296. v. 13.) Ixitpavri Koc/Ava>. In two hours and a half from 
the baths is Adramyttium, now called Edremiti distant more than 
an hour from the sea. From that place, going first west, and then 
south-west, I came to Chemar, in two hours. From Chemar, passing 
Karagatch, you reach in seven hours Aiasniata, distant two miles from 
the sea." Wulpolc's AIS. Journal. 
