i>0 clarke’s travels. 
ny had earned into Egypt the consecrated image, it was again 
recovered by Augustus, and restored to its pristine shrine/* 
These facts may possibly serve to account for the present ap¬ 
pearance of the tomb, on whose summit that shrine itself, and 
a considerable portion of the superstructure, remain unto this 
hour. Pliny, moreover, mentions the situation of the tomb as 
being in the very station of the Grecian fleet ; and, by giving 
its exact distance from Sigeum, not only adds to our convic¬ 
tion of its identity, but marks at the same time, most decisive¬ 
ly, the position of the Porius Achccorum.j In all that remains 
of former ages, I know of nothing likely to affect the mind by 
emotions of local enthusiasm more powerfully than this most 
interesting tomb. It is impossible to view its sublime and 
simple form, without calling to mind the veneration so long 
paid to it; without picturing to the imagination a successive 
series of mariners, of kings and heroes, who from the Helles¬ 
pont, or by the shores of Troas and Chersonesus, or on the 
sepulchre itself, poured forth the tribute of their homage ; and 
finally, without representing to the mind the feelings of ana- 
live, or of a traveller, in those times, who, after viewing the 
existing monument, and witnessing the instances of public and 
of private regard so constantly bestowed upon it, should 
have been told the age was to arrive when the existence of 
Troy, and of the mighty dead entombed upon its plain, would 
be considered as having no foundation in truth. 
The present appearance of the shrine, and of a small cir¬ 
cular superstruction, do not seem to indicate higher antiquity 
than the age ef the Romans. Some have believed, from the 
disclosure of the shrine, that the tomb itself Aras opened ; mis¬ 
taking it for a vault, although its situation near the summit 
might have controverted the opinion. This Avas perhaps con¬ 
structed when Augustus restored the image Antony had taken 
from the Aiantemn. A cement was certainly employed in the" 
work; and the remains of it to this day offer an opportunity 
of confuting very prevailing error concerning the buildings of 
the ancients. The Greeks erected many of their most stupen¬ 
dous edifices without cementation ; hence it has been ^uppo^- 
sed that the appearance of mortar in a building precludes its 
claim to antiquity. This notion is hoAvever set aside at once j 
Strab. Geogr. lib, xvii. p. 858, Ed. Ox. 
T “ Fuit et Aeanlium, a Rhodiis conditum in altero cornu (Rhccteo) Ajace ibi scpulio, 
xxx. sladiorum intervallo a Sigeo , it ivso in siatime classis sm Sic. leg. Casaub. ! 
Sfi Plm. lib. v. c» SO. 
