PLAIN OF TROF, 
95 
We arrived again at Bergas, and, taking-a northern route, 
turned toward Udjek, with an intention of visiting the tomb of 
yEsyetes. As we left the village, I observed, near an old 
cemetery, a large square slab of Parian marble, lying upon 
the soil, and broken in two pieces. From its form, 1 suspected 
that some inscription might be concealed upon its lower sur¬ 
face, and this proved to be the case. We had no sooner raised 
the two fragments, than there appeared the highly interesting 
tribute to the memory of Drusus Caesar, son of Germanicus 
and Agrippina, which is now in the vestibule of the public 
library at Cambridge.* Arriving afterward at the village of 
islands adjacent. To the north of this is a spacious oblong building, constructed 
with stone, and its work strong and massive. A herd of goats, guarded by some 
large dogs, who much molested the guides, was feeding by this place. The black felt 
tents of some wandering Turcomans were pitched at a small distance. A little to 
the east of the above building are the great ruins of the baths, of Pcoman work; in 
the wall are some of the earthen pipes, through which the water was conveyed. To 
the northwest of these are granite columns, lying on the ground; one of which 
measured twenty seven feet in length, and in diameter more than four feet. By the 
port were columns of still greater dimensions. To the northeast of the baths are 
many sarcophagi of stone; some of the lids of which resemble those represented in 
the drawings of the Necropolis of Telmessus. Mottraye, when on the spot, caused 
one of these tombs to-be opened; and found in it two sculls, which crumbled to dust 
on being touched. The ancients used to deposit in them diiferent persons of the same 
family, as may be seen by inscriptions iound on them. I measured a sarcophagus 
here, eleven feet in length, and six in breadth But I did not observe any splendid 
monuments of this kind, to be compared with those which 1 observed at Apbrodi- 
si&s, where are many sarcophagi ornamented with bas-reliefs, and figures, in excel¬ 
lent preservation. The antiquities of this place (now called Gcyra , a few days dis¬ 
tance to the southeast of Smyrna,) which I visited in December, 1805, have not 
been examined as they merit; and would, from their great magnificence and quan¬ 
tity, fully repay the pains and trouble of anyone who would explore them. 
, “ All the ground within the walls of Alexandria is covered with the valani ({3a- 
kavt), producing the valanida, the cup of which is used for dyeing by the orientals, 
and some nations of Europe. An English vessel was taking in a load of this, when I 
passed by some months a'ter. A beautiful slope of two miles, covered with this 
tree, and small bushes, among which are lying pieces of marble, and remains of the- 
ancient city, carries you to the sea. Here, on the shore, is an oblong hollow spot, 
artificially formed, which was perhaps connected with the port; and this last had a 
canal about two hundred yards in length, "which joined it to the sea. The communi¬ 
cation of the canal on one side with the sea, and on the other with the circular ba¬ 
sin, which formed the port, explains well this passage of Vitruvius; ‘ Fossis ductis v 
Jit aqua, exitus ad littus: et ex mart tempestatibus audo m palvdes rcdundantia motioni- 
bus exciiatf r.) Lib i. c. 4. 
“On a small rise of ground, without the walls of the town to the east, is a hot 
spring of mineral water, which supplies two basins at a small distance; one of which 
I found extremely warm. The people in the neighbourhood come there to obtain 
relief for different diseases Pococke says, some have thought this to be Larissa.. 
This conjecture, I think, is very much strengthened by a reference which I find 
Athenasus makes, among other hot waters, to those at Troic Larissa. See lib. ii. 
c. 5 
“ Near the hot baths may be seen specimens of the netted building (opus reticula- 
iuin , as Vitruvius calls it) of the ancient Alexandrians, or Larisseans. A small ri¬ 
vulet runs in the plain below. 
“ I returned to KistamboJ, with the remains of a lamb, which were to serve for 
our supper, and which the guide had bought at Alexandria for the value of three 
shillings English. While I examined the ruins, it was killed, skinned, and roasted 
On the spot by a large wood fire.” Walpole's MS. Journal. 
f See the account of it in a description of the “ Greek Marbles,” No. XXIII. p* 
45. published in Cambridge in 1809. 
