208 DISTRICT OF TROA^S. 
^^^^^'- clear atmosphere of this country, which would 
**— y — -' hardly be credited in any other. Looking 
towards the Archipelago, we plainly discerned 
Mount Athos, called by the peasants, who 
were with us, Agionoros\ the Holy Mountain; 
its triple summit appearing so distinctly to the 
eye, that we were enabled to make a sketch of 
it. At the same time, it seemed that its 
relative position, as placed in all our maps, 
with respect to Sigeum, is too far towards the 
north. The distance at which we viewed it 
could not be less than a hundred English miles : 
according to D'AnviUe, it is about thirty leagues 
from shore to shore, and the summit of the 
mountain is at some distance from the coast. 
Tombs ^^Q visited the two antient Tumuli, called the 
mentioned 
by strabo. ToTubs of AchUks and Patroclus. They are to 
the north-east of the village. A third was 
discovered by Sir TV. GelP, near the bridge for 
passing the Mender; so that the three Tumuli 
mentioned by Strabo^ are yet entire. He 
describes them as the monuments* of Achilles, 
(1) " Attamen ^tos mons Macedoniae Hugmmros proprio nomine 
vocatur." Mabillon. Acta Sanctor. (hd. Bcnedicti, torn. IV. p. 374. 
Not. 6. L. Pur. 1672. 
(2) It now serves as a Turkish coemetery. See the Engraving made 
from Sir TV. Cell's beautiful drawing of it, Plate XVI. Topography 
of Troy, p. 45. 
(3) Strab. Geogr. lib. xiii. p. 859. ed. Ox. 
(4) MnJftaTa. 
