the capital city of Troas, or, according to others, a country of which Ilium was the capital. It was built on a small eminence near Mount Ida, and the promontory of Sigeum, at the distance of about four miles from the sea-shore. Dardanus the first king of the country built it, and called it Dardania, and from Tros one of his successors it was called Troja, and from Ilus Ilion. This city has been celebrated by the poems of Homer and Virgil; and of all the wars which have been carried on among the ancients, that of Troy is the most famous.

A description of the plain of Troy has been published in French in the 3d volume of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, written by M. Chevalier. The city of Troy, according to him, stood on the present site of the modern village of Bournarbach, distant four leagues from the sea, and which is the residence of an aga, ruling with absolute sway the inhabitants of the Trojan plain and the inferior agas, to whom they are immediately subject. Bournarbach is situated on the side of an eminence, exposed to every wind, at the termination of a spacious plain, the soil of which is rich and of a blackish colour. Close to the village is to be seen a marsh covered with tall reeds; and the situation is impregnable on all sides except at Erin (Homer's αγρος), the hill of wild fig trees, which extended between the Scæan gate and the sources of the Scamander. These circumstances, agreeing with Homer's descriptions, strongly support M. Chevalier's opinion concerning the situation of Troy. A very interesting part of this work is the account of conical mounds or barrows, several of them 100 feet in diameter at the base; and which the author maintains to be the identical tombs raised over the ashes of the heroes of the Trojan war; some of them he deems more ancient. He describes particularly the tombs of Ephytes, Ilus, Ajax, Hector, Achilles, Patroclus, and Antilochus.

This dissertation, which runs to the length of 92 quarto pages, is replete with erudition and ingenious reasoning, and is illustrated and embellished by maps of the plain of Troy and several tables of inscriptions. It has been translated with much accuracy and care by Mr Dalzel professor of Greek in the University of Edinburgh, and accompanied with large notes and illustrations.