DISTRICT OP THOM. S& 
About one hundred and fifty yards below the source, is a hot 
spring, close to the bed of the river, exactly of the same tem¬ 
perature as those before described at Bouarbashy. We.return¬ 
ed from this expedition to Evgillar ; and leaving the village, 
went again to Kuchunlu Tepe , to complete our survey of the 
ruins there. "We were told that the pacha of the Dardanelles 
had built a mosque, the tomb of a dervish, a bridge of three 
inches, and all the new works at Beyramitch, with marbles and 
other materials from this place. As we passed through this last 
town, a Turk offered me a sardonyx for sale, exhibiting three 
distinct layers of brown and of white chalcedony : upon the 
tipper layer was an intaglio, representing the well-known figure 
of Mercury with the purse; a subject extremly common to 
gems found in Constantinople.* It was well executed, but the 
price exorbitant, therefore I declined the purchase. We here 
visited the inteudant of the agha, and travelled the same day 
as far as TurkmanU , where we passed another night with the 
hospitable owner of the mansion who entertained us so well 
upon a former occasion. 
From Turkman!# we returned by the way of Mm ; and 
thence, intending to visit Alexandria Troas, took the road to 
Bergas, f distant two hours from iEne, where we halted for the 
night. By the public fountains along this route, and whereso¬ 
ever stone has been used, may be seen the capitals or shafts of 
columns, and other fragments from ancient ruins. The next 
Anemone seapo aphylla,folns crassis prqfundissme Iripartitis subroiundis laciniisJla- 
belliformibus subtrilobis acute dentatis : folio superiore tripartito, laciniis bis trifidis an- 
gustis: invohicro tripartito laciniis lanceolatis inferiori unidentato: petalis latoovatis 
majusculis. We also observed upon this mountain the anemone apennina, lichen arti- 
culatus, frag aria sterilis, crocus aureus, and crocus vernus. At the source of the Sca- 
mander grew thlaspi montanum , “mountain shepherds purse;” origancm onites , 
“ woolly-leaved marjoram fumaria bulbosa, “bulbous fumatory s” anemone co~ 
ronaria, “the narrow-leaved garden anemone;” asplenium ceterach , “ common 
spleenwort;” and a beautiful species of ruscus, a shrub, hitherto unnoticed by any 
author, with leaves broader and more oval than those of the broad-leaved Alexan¬ 
drian laurel, and the fructification covered by an oval leaflet, as in the ruscus hy* 
poglossum. To this we have given the name of ruscus troauensis. — Ruscus foliis 
tanceolato-oQalibus, supra floriferis , sub foliolo. The 'leaves are about two inches 
broad, and from three to three and a half in length: the lowermost grow in -whorls, 
the uppermost alternate: the leaflet covering the fructification is nearly half an inch 
broad, and about three fourths of an inch long: the fruit of the size of a small cherry 
We did not see the flowers. 
Immediately above the source grew alyssum deltoideum . “ Purple blossomed alys- 
son.” 
* The peculiar locality of certain mythological subjects, as represented upon the 
geras of ancient Greece, has not, I believe, been noticed; yet they are almost as lo- 
«al as the medals of the country. Figures and symbols of Ceres are found in Cyprus; 
in Athens, the triple bust of .Socrates, Alcibiades, and the Sicilian physician Raucon- 
das; in Constantinople, representations of a crescent with one or three stars, of Mer¬ 
cury with the purse, heads or whole lengths of Esculapius, Apollo with the chariot of 
the sun; in Alexandria andother parts of Egypt, Scarab&i, with various hieroglyphic 
figures, &c. 
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