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toofe powerfully calculated to affect the mind by local en¬ 
thusiasm. A striking view is here afforded of the Hellespont 
and the plain of Troy. Another tumulus is found in the 
middle of the Simoisian plain, and on the top ot a natural 
mound, from which circumstances Dr. Clarke supposes it to 
be the tomb of Ilus. There are a considerable number of 
other tumuli , particularly on the sea-coast, but which it 
is difficult to identify. 
In ascending to the source of the Mender in the Idaean 
chain. Dr. Clarke passed first through rugged rocky passes, 
resembling some parts of the Tyrol, and inhabited by a race 
of rude mountaineers. He came then to the village of iEne, 
the jEneia of Strabo, and the name of which strongly suggests 
the kingdom said to be erected here by /Eneas, after the 
capture of Troy. These open into a beautiful plain, ap¬ 
pearing as one of the happiest territories in nature, cultivated 
like a garden, regularly inclosed, and surrounded by moun¬ 
tains. Amid this is Beyramitch, the present capital of all 
Troas, and a large well built'town. It contains numerous 
fragments of antiquity brought from Kushunlu Tepe, a large 
conical mountain, forming one of the first steeps of Gargarus. 
In this place, accordingly, are found the marks of several 
immense temples; but only their area can now be traced, 
filled with fragments of terra cotta and other materials; the 
columns and ornaments having been almost entirely carried 
off. 
At the southern extremity of the plain of Troy, nearly 
opposite to Tenedos, appear on a height the remains of 
Alexandria Troas. This was once a splendid city, built by 
Antigonus, and improved by Lysimachus, who, in honour 
of his master, gave to it the name of Alexandria. Although 
it has served for many ages as a magazine of architectural or¬ 
naments to Constantinople, and all the surrounding country, 
the monuments which remain are still surprising. The aque¬ 
ducts of Herodes Atticus, formed of enormous masses of 
hewn stone, the walls of the city in the same colossal style 
of masonry, and the baths, all exhibit the grand style of 
ancient building. Broken marble tomb-stones are scattered 
about, of such prodigious size, that they appear like rocks 
covering the soil. But the finest building is that called, 
upon a false theory, the palace of Priam, which, besides the 
vast quantity of marble used in its construction, appears to 
have been entirely covered with a coating of metal. It is 
seen to a great distance at sea. The immense theatre, built 
on the slope of the hill, and looking towards the sea, is still 
in a state of considerable perfection. The diameter mea¬ 
sures 252 feet. Several other edifices may be traced, though 
it is difficult to trace the purposes for which several of them 
were erected. 
TRQARN, a small town in the north of France, depart¬ 
ment of Calvados, with 1000 inhabitants; 9 miles east of 
Caen. 
To TROAT, v. a. To cry as a buck does at rutting time. 
Diet. 
TROBRIAND ISLANDS, a cluster forming part of the 
archipelago of Louisiade, discovered by D’Enfrescasteux. 
Cape Denis, the most northern point of Trobriand, the 
largest, is situated in lat. 8. 24. S. long. 151. 8. E. 
TROCADIE, a small island in the gulf of St. Lawrence, 
near the north coast of St. John’s Island. 
TROCAMANA, a small river of Quito, in the province 
of Mainas, which enters the Tigre, just where that river joins 
the Amazons. 
TRO'CAR s. [trocar , corrupted from trois quart, Fr.] 
A chirurgical instrument.—The handle of the trocar is of 
wood, the canula of silver, and the perforator of steel. 
Sharp. 
The trocar is commonly used for tapping the abdomen, in 
cases of ascites and ovarial dropsy; the tunica vaginalis, in 
cases of hydrocele; the bladder, when there is ncr other 
mode of evacuating the urine. 
TROCAZZANO, a small town of Austrian Italy, in the 
Milanese, delegation of Cremona, not far from the Adda. 
TROCTIA'ICAL, or Trocha'ic, adj. [trochaicus , Lat.] 
Consisting of trochees.—-More of that true harmony, which 
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will best support a poem, will result from a variety of pauses 
and from an intermixture of those different feet, iambic and 
trochaic particularly, into which our language naturally falls, 
than from the uniformity of similar terminations. Dr. 
Warton. 
TROCHA’IC, s. A trochaical verse.—The supplicating 
song is highly pathetic and poetical, especially when he con¬ 
jures the powers below in beautiful trochaics; 
“ By the hero’s armed shades, 
“ Glittering through the gloomy glades ; 
“ By the youths that died for love, 
“ Wandering in the myrtle grove.” Dr. Warton. 
TROCHA'NTERS, s. [Tj)o%av7'/j5e?, Gr.] Two processes 
of the thigh bone, called rotator major and minor, in which 
the tendons of many muscles terminate. Diet. 
TRO'CIIEE, s. [trocheeus, Lat.; trochee, Fr.; t potato?, 
Gr.] A foot used in Latin poetry, consisting of a long and 
short syllable. 
TRO'CIIIL, or Tro'chilus, s. [ trochilus, Latin.] A 
small sea-bird, said to get its meat out of the crocodile’s 
mouth.—The crocodile opens his chaps to let the trochil in 
to pick his teeth, which gives it the usual feeding. Sir 1\ 
Herbert. —A name sometimes given to the wren. 
TROCHl’LIC, adj. Having power to draw out, or turn 
round.—I am advertised that there is one, which by art tro- 
chilic, will draw all English surnames of the best families 
out of the pit of poetry; as Boucher from Busyris, Percy from 
Perseus, &c. Camden. 
TROCPII'LICS, s. [rGreek, a wheell\ 
The science of rotatory motion.—There succeeded new in¬ 
ventions and horologies, composed by trochilics, or the 
artifice of wheels, whereof some are kept in motion by 
weight, others without. Brown. 
TROCIIILO, Cape, one or the southern points of the 
island of Cerigo, in Greece; 6 miles south-east of Cane 
Liado. 
TROCHILUS, the Humming-Bird, or Honey-Sucker, 
in Ornithology, a genus of birds of the order piece; the 
Characters of which are, that the bill is longer than the head, 
subulate-filiform, or cylindric, slender, with slightly-thick¬ 
ened tip; the upper mandible sheathing the lower; the 
tongue filiform, consisting of two conjoined slips forming a 
tube, and extensile; the legs slender and rather short, and 
feet formed for walking; the tail composed of ten feathers. 
The humming-birds constitute a lively brilliant race, dis¬ 
tinguished by their beautiful colours and diminutive size, 
peculiar natives of the American continent and adjacent 
islands, and, with few exceptions, confined to the hotter re¬ 
gions. The genus is extensive, and it has therefore been 
found convenient to divide them into two sections, viz., the 
curve-billed and the straight-billed. 
I.—Curved-billed. 
1. Trochilus paradiseus.—Red; head crested; blue wings, 
and two of the tail-feathers very long. This is the Paradise 
humming-bird of Latham.—A native of New Spain. 
2. Trochilus pella.—Red (purple-red, Shaw), with brown 
(black, Shaw) head; golden (topazine, Shaw) throat; green 
rump, and two very long middle tail-feathers. This is the 
colibri topaze of Buffon, the long-tailed red humming-bird of 
Edwards, and the topaz humming-bird of Latham. It is 
the most brilliant of this section, and has a decided superio¬ 
rity to all the rest by its magnitude as well as colours. The 
female is far inferior to the male with respect to brilliancy of 
colour.—This bird is a native of several parts of South Ame¬ 
rica, but is principally found in Surinam and Guiana, fre¬ 
quenting the banks of rivers and brooks. During flight, 
they skim the surface of the waler like swallows. 
3. Trochilus superciliosus.—Gilded or shining brown • 
elongated middle tail-feathers (white at the tips, Shaw), grey 
beneath, with long bill and white eye-brows. Shaw. The 
supercilious humming-bird of Latham, distinguished from 
all others by the great length of its bill, and its strongly 
cuneated tail. The female differs by being of a pale rufous 
grey beneath, by having a shorter bill, the lower mandible 
whitish. 
