Great, who first planned a city in that spot, was at one time inferior to no city of the eighteen which bore the name of Alexandria, but Alexandria in Egypt.) It was seated on a hill, sloping towards the sea, and divided from Mount Ida by a deep valley. On each side is an extensive plain with watercourses. The port of Troas, by which we landed, has a hill rising round it in a semicircle, and covered with rubbish. Many small granite pillars are standing, half buried, and much corroded by the spray. It is likely the vessels were fastened to them by ropes.

It

"The city wall is standing, except toward the vineyard, but with gaps, and the battlements ruined. was thick and solid, had square towers at regular distances, and was several miles in circumference. Besides houses, it enclosed many magnificent structures; but now appears as the boundary of a forest or neglected park.

"Confusion cannot easily be described. Above the shore is a hollow, overgrown with trees, near which Pococke saw remains of a place for races, sunk in the ground; and higher up is the vaulted basement of a large temple. We were told that this had lately been a lurking-place of robbers, who often lay concealed here, their horses tied in rows to wooden pegs, of which many then remained in the wall. It now swarmed with bats, much bigger in size than the English, which, on our entering, flitted about, innumerable; and, settling when tired, blackened the roof... At some distance are vestiges of a theatre and music theatre. Among the rubbish, which is of great extent, are a few scraps of marble and of sculpture, with many small granite pillars.

"The principal ruin, which is that seen afar off by the mariners, commands a view of the islands of Tenedos and Lemnos; and on one side, of the plain to the Hellespont, and of the mountains in Europe. Before it is a gentle descent, woody, to the sea. It was a very ample building, and, as we supposed, once the gymnasium, where the youth were instructed in learning and in

exercises. It consists of three open, massive arches, towering amid walls and a vast heap of huge materials. They are constructed with a species of stone full of petrified cockle shells, and of cavities like honeycomb. The latter, it is likely, have occasioned the name used, as Pococke relates, by the peasants, the Palace of Honey.

"We found three pedestals erected to the high-priest of the gods Julius and Augustus, as these Roman emperors were styled by the citizens of Troas, who were indebted to Rome for much of their prosperity. A noble aqueduct begins behind the city, erected to supply Troas with water, by the Emperor Hadrian.

"The Christian religion was planted early at Troas, but the churches have long since been demolished . . .

"In the evening we returned to the vineyard, and found our cook, with two or three of the Turks, busy in a hovel roasting a kid on a wooden spit or stake. The flesh proved excellent. Our table was a mat on the ground, beneath a spreading vine . . . Soon after we fell asleep, and the starry heaven was our canopy

...

"In the slope of the hill of Troas rises a hot spring ... The bed resembles rusty iron in colour, and the edges were encrusted with white salt. After running a few paces, it enters a basin about nine feet square, within a mean hovel roofed with boughs . . . The current, passing from hence, is admitted into another basin. These baths are reckoned very efficacious in rheumatism, leprosy, and all cutaneous disorders. They first scour the skin by rolling in the bed of the river, which is a fine sand. By each enclosure is a shed, where they sleep after bathing. In the court-yard of one is inserted the trunk of a large statue; and higher on the hill are the ruins and vestiges of the ancient sepulchres of Troas . . .

"We slept (again) on the beach of Troas. The solemn night was rendered yet more awful by the melancholy howlings of numerous jackals in packs, hunting, as we supposed, their prey."-CHANDLER's Travels in Asia Minor.

"AND we went before to ship, and sailed unto Assos, there intending to take in Paul: for so had he appointed, minding himself to go afoot. And when he met with us at Assos, we took him in, and came to Mitylene."-Acts xx. 13, 14.

This city was situated in Mysia, south of Troas, and was a sea-port. It stood in a commanding position, and was strongly fortified. The island of Lesbos, now called Mitylene (see MITYLENE), was opposite.

The ruins of Assos are very singular and interesting. Several ruined temples, a theatre, walls, towers, and a grand cemetery without the walls, are proofs of its former greatness. Numerous sarcophagi are still standing in their places.-See COLONEL LEAKE'S Journal.

CHAPTER VI.

MACEDONIA AND GREECE.

THESSALONICA.

ATHENS.-Short Notices of Ancient and Modern Athens-The Acropolis -Areopagus-Fine Sunset-Sunrise-Wells-Oil - Honey-GameFruit-Wild Beasts.

CORINTH AND CENCHREA.-Situation of Corinth-Curious CradlesAncient Splendour and present Misery-Wild Animals-Cenchræa— Acrocorinthus-Corinth Grape.

THESSALONICA.

SCRIPTURE NOTICE.

"THEY came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews; and Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three Sabbath days reasoned with them out of the Scriptures, opening and alleging that Christ must needs have suffered . . . And some of them believed . . . and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few. But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort ... and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people . . . And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea."-Acts xvii. 1-5, 10; ver. 13; xxvii. 2.

"From various individuals we heard of Salonica, the ancient Thessalonica. The Jewish community there are very exclusive, quite a nation by themselves. They have great influence in the city, are very reserved, and keep aloof from all strangers. They are very strict Jews."

"We ran up the Gulf of Salonica, and next day cast anchor off the town... We walked through it, and visited the remains of some marble columns, being the entrance to a temple . . . Houses are built on this spot, having a wall forining part of the street around them.. There is a fine triumphal arch, tolerably perfect, on which is represented the triumphal entry of one of the Roman emperors, in a car drawn by six fine horses; and also a battle scene, in which the warriors hold immense shields.

"The bay of Salonica is very spacious, and worthy of notice, and the appearance of the town on approaching the bay is very striking, as it is built on the slope of a hill, with a strong wall all around it, presenting a long