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clarke's travels. 
At a distance from Bonarbashy, and not in any way connected 
either with the antiquities there, or with the place itself, are 
the heights, which recent travellers, and several of my parti¬ 
cular friends, after the example of M. Chevalier, have thought 
proper to entitle the acropolis of ancient Troy. Not having ! 
oiy own mind satisfied upon the subject, I should be extreme¬ 
ly deficient in duty to my readers, if any sense of private re¬ 
gard induced me to forego the stronger claim they have to my 
sincerity. Having already shown the nature of the error con¬ 
cerning the source of the Scamander, which first induced M. 
Chevalier to adapt appearances at Bonarbashy to the history 
of Ilium, I am particularly called upon to point out his other 
misrepresentations. One of the most glaring is that which 
concerns the temperature of the springs another is in de¬ 
scribing the heights to which 1 now allude, as a part of the 
chain of Mount Ida, although seperated from it by the whole 
plain of Beyramitcb, which intervenes toward the east; and a 
third, that of representing the heights to which the supposed 
acropolis belonged, as a continuation of the ascent on which 
Bonarbashy is placed ; so that the reader supposes a gradual 
rise to take place from what he has defined as the relative situ¬ 
ation of the lower to the upper city ; although a deep and 
rocky dingle intervenes, never yet subjected to any effort of 
human labour, which might serve to connect the two places with 
each other. The antiquities on these heights are certainly very 
remarkable, and worthy every degree of attention a traveller 
can bestow upon them. I shall now proceed to describe their 
appearance. 
Proceeding in a southeasterly direction from the sloping 
eminence on which Bonarbashy is situated, we crossed the din¬ 
gle % I have mentioned; and then began to climb the steep, on 
which it has been supposed the citadel of Priam stood. Upon 
the very edge of the summit, and, as it were, hanging over it, 
is an ancient tumulus, constructed entirely of stones, heaped, 
after the ordinary manner, into a conical shape, and of the 
usual size of such sepulchres : this, although various, may be 
averaged according to a circumference, for the base, equal to 
“ This inscription seems to have formed part of a message to the citizens or ma¬ 
gistrates of the place ; and the writer refers in it to something formerly addressed to 
them concerning piety toward the gods, hut particularly toward Minerva; and men¬ 
tion is made of oxen, which may have been offered up to the. goddess; as Xerxes, 
we find from Herodotus, .sacrificed to her, when at Troy, a thousand oxen ; 
l@uo‘£ 'xAi’cds Pous.” fVulpole's MS. Journal . 
“ The one of these sources is in reality warm, &c. and the other is always 
cold." 1 Chevalier's Descript, of Plain of Troy, p. J27. 
