DISTRICT OF TROAS. 
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over this country. In the first view of them, I recognised the 
form of an ancient car, of Grecian sculpture, in the. Vatican 
collection at Rome; and which, although of Parian marble, had 
been carved to resemble wicker-work; while its wheels were 
an imitation of those solid circular planes of timber used at this 
day in Troas, and in many parts of Macedonia and Greece, for 
the cars of the country. They are expressly described by 
Homer, in the mention made of Priam’s litter, when the king 
commands his sons to bind on the chest, or coffer, w hich was of 
wicker-work, upon the body of the carriage.* 
Returning to the house of the agha, the prospect of the 
plain was becoming dim in the twilight Samothraee still ap^ 
peered ; and as the moon rose over all, the minuter traces of 
the scene were no longer discernible ; but the principal objects, 
io fine distinct masses, remained long visible. 
In the morning I observed a number of antiquities in and 
about the place, such as fragments of Doric arid Ionic pillars of 
marble, some columns of granite, broken bas-reliefs, and, in 
short, those remains so profusely scattered over this extraor¬ 
dinary country ; serving to prove the number of cities and tem¬ 
ples, once the boast of Troas, without enabling us to ascertain 
the position of any one of them. There is every reason to 
believe some ancient town was originally situated at Bonar- 
bashy; not only by these remains, but by the marks of ancient 
turrets, as of a citadel, in the soil immediately behind the house 
of the agha. The reliques of very ancient pavement may 
also be observed in the street of the village ; and in the front 
of it, upon a large block of Parian marble, used as a seat, near 
the mosque, Mr. Walpole observed a curious inscription, which 
is here subjoined, in an extract from his Journal.-}- 
* Iliad Q. This wicker chest, being movable, Is used or not, as circumstances 
may require- 
t “ I shall here give an inscription which I copied at Bonarbashy, and which has 
never yet been published. It is on a piece of marble, now serving as a seat, and very 
interesting, being found on the supposed site of Troy ; but to what city of the Troad 
it belonged, cannot be determined from any fact mentioned in it. From the omission 
of the I’ujra adscript, it may be referred to the time of the Romans ; (See Chishulh 
Antiq. Asiat .) and a form of expression precisely similar to one in the inscription If 
to be found in the answer of the Romans to the Teians, in Chishull, p. 102. 
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