BLAX-N OF TROY. $ r l 
by reference to the pyramids of Egypt; in building these, - 
mortar was undoubtedly used.-* 
The view here afforded of the Hellespont and the plain of 
Troy is one of the finest the country affords. Several plants, 
during the season of our visit,f were blooming upon the soil. 
Upon the tomb itself we noticed the silvery mezereon, the 
poppy, the beardless hypecoum, and the field star of Bethlehem.} 
From the Aiantenm we passed over a heathy country to 
Halil EUy, a village near the Thymhnus, in whose vicinity 
we had been instructed to seek the remains of a temple once 
sacred to the Thymbrean Apollo. The ruins we found were 
rather the remains of ten temples than of one.§ The earth to a 
very considerable extent was covered by subverted and broken 
columns of marble, granite, and of every order in architecture. 
Boric, Ionic, and Corinthian capitals, lay dispersed in ail di¬ 
rections, and some of these were of great beauty. We observ¬ 
ed a bas-relief representing a person on horseback pursued 
by a winged figure; also a beautiful representation, sculptured 
after the same manner, of Ceres in her car drawn by two sca¬ 
ly serpents. Of three inscriptions which I copied among these 
ruins, the first was engraven upon the shaft of a marble pillar. 
This we removed, and brought to England. It is now 7 in the 
vestibule of the public library at Cambridge ; and commemo¬ 
rates the public services of a Fhrontistes of Brustis Ciesar.ij 
The names of persons belonging to the family of Germanicus 
occur frequently among inscriptions found in and near the 
Troas. Brusus, the son of Germanicus, was himself appointed 
to a government in the district. The second inscription has 
been once before printed, but most erroneously : it may there 
fore be again presented to the public, in a more accurate form.** 1 
Whatsoever tends in any degree to illustrate the origin of the 
ruins in which it was discovered, will be considered interest¬ 
ing; although, after all, we must remain in a state of the great¬ 
est uncertainty with regard to the city alluded to in either of 
these documents. Possibly it may have been Scamandria; 
* To prove this, the author brought specimens from the spot, of the mortar errs 
ployed in building the greater pyi^mid. 
f March 3d. 
4 Daphne argentea, Anemone coronarin , Hypecoum imberbe, Ornii’iogalum arvense. 
§ Our artist. Monsieur Preaux, as well as another of our company, Don Tita Lusk- 
n, of Naples, then employed in making drawings for the British Ambassador, although 
both accustomed to the view of architectural remains, declared, they could reconcile 
the ruins at Halil Elly to no account yet given of the country, ancient or modern, 
|| This inscription has been already published in the account given of the Greek, 
garbles at Cambridge. Seep. 43. No. XXI. of that work. 
It was also since copied by Mr, Walpole, from whose copy it is here given, ad- 
^mpanjed by his notes, See. the. following page. 
