7’2 clarke’s travels. 
manner in which Hector was pursued around its walls by 
Achilles.* 
One hundred and twenty-three paces from the tumulus, 
called by Chevalier, and others, the tomb of Hector, is a se« 
cond; a more regular and more considerable artificial heap of 
the same nature, and in every respect having a better title to 
the name bestowed upon the first. The base of this is one 
hundred and thirty-three yards in circumference. An hundred 
and forty-three paces further on, upon the hill, is a third, the 
circumference of whose base measured ninety yards. Names 
have been already bestowed upon them all; the first being call¬ 
ed, as before stated, the tomb of Hector; the second, that of 
Priam ; and the third, that of Paris. After passing these tu¬ 
muli, appear the precipices flanking the southeastern side of 
the hill above the Scamander, which winds around its base.—- 
So much has been already written and published upon the sub¬ 
ject, that it is not necessary to be very minute in describing 
every trace of human labour upon this hill. The extent of its 
summit is eight hundred and fifty yards: its breadth, in the 
widest part, equals about two hundred and fifty. The foun¬ 
dations of buildings, very inconsiderable in their nature, and, 
with no character of remote antiquity, may be discerned in 
several parts of it: the principal of these are upon the most 
elevated spot toward the precipices surrounding its southeast¬ 
ern extremity; where the appearances, as w ell of the soil as 
of masonry, certainly indicate the former existence of some an¬ 
cient superstructure. But the remains are not of a description 
even to ascertain the site of a Roman citadel: they seem rather 
to denote one of the retreats of those numerous pirates which in 
different ages have infested the Hellespont; and whose disper¬ 
sion. £u the time of .Brusus Caesar, gave occasion to the memo¬ 
rial of gratitude before noticed, as inscribed upon one of the 
marbles we removed from the ruins at Halil Eliy.f This re¬ 
mark applies solely to the buildings. The tumuli upon these 
heights undoubtedly relate to a very different period: and 
whether their history may be carried back to the events of 
the Trojan war, or to the settlement of Milesian colonies upon 
the coast is a point capable of some elucidation, w henever 
future travellers have an opportunity to examine their in¬ 
terior. 
* Iliad X’, Some, misled by Virgil, (iEn. I.”487.) have affirmed that Achilles 
dragged the body of fleeter thrice round the city, 
f See the preceding chapter, p, 51. 
