222 FROM THE HELLESPONT 
CHAP. Leaving the Dardanelles, we again passed the 
■ interesting land of Troas, once more viewing the 
Rhoelean Promontory, the Tomh of A/ax, +he 
Grecian harbour, the Sepulchre ofJSsyetes, and the 
mouth of Xanthus, tinging the dark waters of the 
Hellespont with its yellow torrent. Our course 
was along the European side of the channel ; as in 
coasting Sigeum there is a shoal, whereon vessels 
are often stranded. In order to escape this, ships 
from the Archipelago SiYoid bearing up the Straits 
until they are able to see all the windmills, sta- 
tioned upon the brow of the promontory'. Two 
of the tombs mentioned by Straho appear very 
conspicuously in that point of view. The house 
of a Dervish is situate in the side of one which 
is the nearest to the windmills, and to the village 
of Yeni Cheyr; and this was the sepulchre opened 
by order of Monsieur cle Choiseul'\ Having 
doubled the cape, two other Tumuli appear upon 
the coast towards the south^ These are very 
large, and stand close to the cliff above the shore. 
Teaedos. ^Yq galled ou towards Tenedos. The soil, as we 
approached, seemed bleak and barren; but the 
(1) See the Vignette to this Chapter. 
(2) See Xhefignette : although, with reference to the Tumh of Achilles, 
there is a passage in Straho which seems to assign for it a position to 
the south oi Sigeum. He is evidently proceeding from ^/geKwi towards 
I.ectum, when he says 'Esti S' h f^t'-k Tnt tiytaHa. a.Ki>a,^ y.ai <ro 'A;^/XXsi«v, 
*. r. X. Strab. Geog. I, xiii. />. 86'9. Ed.Oxon. 
(3) See the preceding Note. 
