M Clarke’s travels. 
■ 
Udjek, distant two hours from Bergas, I copied another in¬ 
scription from a smaller piece of marble: this we left in the 
country. The legend is as follows : 
SPLENDID I SSI M VS 
POPVLYS 
COL A V G * TR OADENS 
A V R EL TV M • I O B A C C H V M 
CYRAT OREM 
. , .IDIOMENOGEN 
We then proceeded to Udjek Tepe , or the immense tumulus 
of iEsyetes, whose situation precisely agrees with the account 
given of that monument by Strabo. It is of all others the 
spot most remarkably adapted for viewing the plain of Troy, 
arid is visible in almost all parts of Troas. From its top may 
he traced the course of the Scamander; the whole chain of 
Ida, stretching toward Lectum the snowy heights of Garga- 
% Mr. Walpole crossed theldsean Chain, as appears by the following extract from 
bis Journal, relating to an excursion he made from Alexandria Troas to the Adra- 
ynyttlan Gulpb. 
41 From the village of Kistambol, where on a stone sarcophagus, by the hut in 
which l lived, were the letters POSTVMIA VENEREA, I set oiTto cross the part 
of Ida which separated the froad from the Ariramyttian Gulph. This ridge of moun¬ 
tains is called,. by Strabo, re euro rou Afxrou pu%is dvarihgucra 7rpos rnv "15^ p. 871. 
In an hour’s time I reached Yalagick, where, on a stone by a fountain, I read the 
words Sigtiifer, toperalor, Decurioni , well cut. The rocks near the road are of granite.?’ 
I continued my route S. E. and E. S. E. for seven hours, passing small streams run¬ 
ning down from the mountains: by the sides grew the nerium (which Hasselquist 
asserts is the tree referred to by David, Psalm i. 3.) and the plant. The therebin- 
ihvs grew above, on the rocks. I then reached a hamlet, Sunovassi, encircled by 
mountains; here we procured ashed for our party to pass the night, which consisted 
of myself, a servant, a guide, and a black soldier who was to accompany me to Adra- 
ibyttiura. We were able to find some bread, which the Turks eat unleavened ; some 
petmes: anci some rice. The inhabitants of the village, who were Turks, showed no 
disposition to annoy us, nor any impertinent curiosity, although in that recess of Ida, 
they could see but,few European travellers. Corn, olives, cotton, and maize, the ears 
of which are eaten roasted, were the produce of their fields. From the mountain 
side they got fir, and the wood of the arbutus, to supply their hearths. At half past 
eight the next morning I left Sunovassi: at nine, I began to ascend Bikili-Bah, part 
of JPria. Nothing could exceed the beautiful scenery which I beheld on all sides, as 
I continued my ride, occasionally casting my eye downward upon forests of pines, 
and on villages hanging on the side, or placed at the feet of the mountains. On reach¬ 
ing the summit, the sea and island of Mitylene presented themselves; and in three 
hours time, from the moment of ascending, I reached the shore, along which I con¬ 
tinued to ride tilt a quarter before four, when I turned up to the N. E. On the sea 
side were pieces of fir, cut down from Ida, for ship-building. At half past four I 
arrived at Avgillar, a small village, where I slept. There is a Greek inscription 
placed sideways in the outer wall of the mosque. The next day, at the distance 
of an hour and a half, l passed some warm baths, which I was not able to examine, 
as some Turkish women were there bathing. These may be the hot waters, to which 
Galen says, an invalid, ^ho lived not far from Pergamus, was sent, (De Si?n. Med. p, 
296. v. 13.) jAbfKxvri xoi/gvcov. In two hours and a half from the baths is Adramyt- 
tium, now called Edrhnit: distant more than an hour from the sea. From that place? 
