122 FROM THE COUNTRY OF THE CICONES, 
CHAP, the Trojan mounds related to the heroes who 
III. 
^- ' fell during the Trojan War. But this fact 
should rather be adduced in support of that 
opinion ; for it goes to prove that the tumuli in 
Troas are similar to those which it was the 
custom of the neighbouring nations, in the time 
of the ivar of Troy, to raise over the bodies of 
deceased warriors. Had any other kind of 
antient sepulchres been pointed out in the 
Plain of Troy, than such as correspond in their 
present appearance with the manners of the 
age in which the war happened, there w^ould 
have been good cause for denying that these 
were alluded to by Homer ; but in the perfect 
agreement of their forms with those of the old 
Thracian sepulchres, the probability of their 
presumed origin is rather strengthened than 
diminished. 
^''''- ,. The distance from Rhodosto to Eshi Ere^li, 
Ij regit. o 
before stated, is computed as a journey of nine 
hours and a half; which, according to the 
common mode of reckoning, would make it 
equal to 274 geographical miles : but this is 
not true ; and the fact is, that they reckon 
distances in this part of Thrace by the time in 
which waggons are drawn by buffaloes. The 
imposing name of this place deceived us, as it 
