PLAIN OF TROY. 
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at PalaioCallifat, Old Callifat, a short distance from the pre¬ 
sent village, in the plain toward the east.* I begged to be con¬ 
ducted thither; and took one of the peasants with me as a 
guide. 
We came to an elevated spot of ground, surrounded on all 
sides by a .level plain watered by the Callifat Osmack, and 
which there is every reason to believe the Shnoisian. Here 
we found, not only the traces, but also the remains of an an¬ 
cient citadel. Turks were then employed raising enormous 
blocks of marble, from foundations surrounding the place; pos¬ 
sibly the identical works constructed by Lysimaehus: who 
fenced new Ilium with a wall. The appearance of the struc¬ 
ture exhibited that colossal and massive style of architecture 
which bespeaks the masonry of the early ages of Grecian his¬ 
tory. All the territory within these foundations was covered 
by broken pottery, whose fragments were part of those ancient 
vases now held in such high estimation. Here the peasants 
said they found the medals they had offered to us, and most 
frequently after heavy rains. Many had been discovered in 
consequence of the recent excavations made there by the 
Turks, who were removing the materials of the old founda¬ 
tions, for the purpose of constructing works at the Dardanelles. 
As these medals, bearing indisputable legends to designate the 
people by whom they w ere fabricated, have also, in the cir¬ 
cumstances of their discovery, a peculiar connexion with the 
ruins here, they may be considered as indicating, with tolera¬ 
ble certainty, the situation of the city to which they belonged. 
Had we observed, in our route from Tchiblack, precisely the 
line of direction mentioned by Strabo, and continued a due 
course from east to west, instead of turning toward the south 
hi the Simoisian plain to visit the village of Callifat, we should 
have terminated the distance he has mentioned, of thirty sta¬ 
dia, (as separating the city from the village of the Iliensians) 
by the discovery of these ruins. They may have been the 
same w hich Kauffer noticed in his map,f. by the title of Ville 
de Constantine ; but evidently appear to be the remains of 
New Ilium ; whether we regard the testimony afforded by their 
situation, as accordant with the text of Strabo; or the dis- 
* Every traveller who has visited Greece will he aware of the importance of pro¬ 
fiting by the mention of the word Palaio , as applied to the name of any place. It is 
a never-failing indication of the site of some ancient city ; and so it proved in the 
present instance. 
t See the map published by Arrdwsmith of Tke Plain of Troy , from an origin^ 
design by Kauifer„ ■ 
