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clarke’s travels* 
confirmed than confuted. The balneos of the ancients, par \ 
Ocularly among the Romans, were often colleges of science 
and martial exercise; such were the buildings erected by 
Diocletian and Caracalla, and by the Emperor Adrian, ; 
according to Pausanias, as an ornament to the city of Corinth * 
On the south side of this building, and very near it, we 
found the remains of a circular edifice, resembling those struc¬ 
tures at Raise, in Campania, now called temples, but primarily 1 
baths. Half of this edifice remained in an entire state. It 
had a small corridor round the base of the dome with which 
it was originally covered. Farther on, toward the sea, to the 
southwest, we found the ruin of a small oblong temple, and 
afterward observed another of considerable size, whose founda¬ 
tion remained unbroken. Then, turning toward the west, we 
came to the substruction of a very large building, but could 
comprehend nothing of its former history. At present it con¬ 
sists only of a series of vaults and spacious subterranean cham¬ 
bers, one beneath another, now serving as sheds for tenders and 
herds of goats. Again pursuing a southwestern course, we ar¬ 
rived at the immense theatre of the city, still in a state of con¬ 
siderable perfection. The semicircular range of seats is vaulted 
at either extremity: the diameter, taken from one side to the 
other, where the vaults remain, measured two hundred and 
fifty-two feet. Like almost every Grecian theatre, it was 
constructed by making the slope of the hill itself subservient 
to the sweep necessary for accommodating spectators. It com¬ 
mands a noble view of the sea, with the whole island of Te- 
oedos as the principal object Immediately in front. Lower 
down, toward the port, were marble soroi, and other antiqui¬ 
ties of less importance. The few inscriptions discovered here 
by Chandler, and by others, have been removed; neither is it 
necessary to add what has already been published. Perhaps, 
even in this brief description of the confused and desolate re¬ 
mains denoting the site of Alexandria Troas, it has not been 
altogether possible to avoid a repetition of observations made 
by preceding travellers.! 
* Pausan. in Corinth, c. 3. 
f “ From Bonarbashi, I set off, April 8, 1808, to a village called Kistambol , for the 
purpose of examining the ruins of Alexandria Troas. I procured a small hut for my- ] 
self and servants ; and leaving the baggage there, rode to Alexandria, at the distance 
©f an hour. The ruins there, the different fragments of marble from Paros, and Mar¬ 
mora; the blocks of granite; all attest the former magnificence of this city. The | 
theatre faced the sea, as seems t<? have been the custom whenever the situation al- i 
lowed it* It is a mile from the shore, and commands a view of Tenedos, and th@ ! 
