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Review Of New Publications.
Constantinople , Ancient and Modem , itiith Excursions to the Shores and Islands of the Archipelago , and to the Troad . By James Callaway , M . B . F . S . A . late Chaplain and Physician of the British Embassy to tbe Porte . __< . to . Price il . us . 6 d . Cadell and Davies . HCONCLUDED FROM OCR LAST . ] ON beginning his survey of the Trojan plain , having crossed tbe river Sirnoeison a long woe ' , n ' brid the classic eye of this ingenious author
, ge , rested on theirreguhr tumulus , now called Intepa , or the tomb of Aiax Telamonius . From this spot was taken a view of the Hellespont , of which a neat engraving is annexed ; but this structure , from an inspection of the vault and broken walls , appeared of a much less ancient date than the time of the Grecian bc-ro . To those readers who feel interested in the vindication of Homeric authenticity , and in the dispute concerning the existence of ancient Ilium , the evidence of Mr . Dallaway must be of importance ; we therefore
g ive his own words . ¦ ' The succession of five tumuli , under the distant horizon , tends more than , any or her proof to ascertain tbe Trojan war ; about an hour and a half from Brurnabashi , on am easy eminence facing the west , we discovered vestiges of an ancient city . '— ' From the detail of topographical notices given by Homer , and from a comparison of the circumstances tie mentions , the strongest assurance will follow , not only of the existence , but the locality of Troy .
To insist that the poem should be historically exact , would be to make no allowance fat-the liberty of a poet : that it is topographically so , an examination of the present face of the country will amply prove ; ancl it is equally an object of classical curiosity , whether Troy existed or not , since the fable , if such it must be , is invariably accommodated to the scene of action . With respectful deference to a name , so long esteemed in the republic of letters , as that of Mr . Bryant , I humbly , but totally dissent from his scepticism on this
subjeft ; for it is not to the tasteless system of Le Bossu , in his Essay on the Epic , who has preceded Mr . Bryant in a similar hypothesis , that the opinion of many ages , and the satisfaction of ocular inspection , can be readily conceded . To establish a conviition on the mind , that the ' tale of Troy divine ' is a ' mere invention , may require yet . more than the most laborious learning can . lead to conjecture ; ancl , could it avail , we might lose in the pleasures of the imagination , as much as we should gain by truth , could bis arguments establish it , and lament , with the enthusiast in Horace ,
< tk-mptusper vim mentis gratissimus error . ' At Tenedos , Mr . Dallaway parted from the gentlemen who had been hitherto the companions of his journey , and returned to Constantinople . The following passage concludes the 14 . tr . section , in which is given an account of the Greek church . ' Since the close of the sixteenth century , the Russian church has claimed a jurisdictionindependent of the see of Constantinople . Nevertheless
ap-, _ peals have been made to that see , in cases of extraordinary importance . From thc success of the Russian anus in the two last wars , should the Ottoman power be eventually subdued , it seems not improbable that the religion of the Greeks may once more be triumphantly established on the shores of the ' Bosporus : that the crescent may no longer profane the domes of Christian temples ; and that the Patriarch of Constantinople may be restored to the dignitythough not to the power and influencewhich he enjoyed at the most
, , flourishing periods of the lower empire . ' ' The Armenians , ' we are informed , ' exist no longer collectively as a nation , once famous for the wealth and luxury of its monarchs ; but successively conquered , and alternately subject to the Turks and Persians , they have preserved only their native language { even tvhich is disused at Constantinoyie ) aud th . remembrance of their ancient kingdom . Dispersed over
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Review Of New Publications.
Constantinople , Ancient and Modem , itiith Excursions to the Shores and Islands of the Archipelago , and to the Troad . By James Callaway , M . B . F . S . A . late Chaplain and Physician of the British Embassy to tbe Porte . __< . to . Price il . us . 6 d . Cadell and Davies . HCONCLUDED FROM OCR LAST . ] ON beginning his survey of the Trojan plain , having crossed tbe river Sirnoeison a long woe ' , n ' brid the classic eye of this ingenious author
, ge , rested on theirreguhr tumulus , now called Intepa , or the tomb of Aiax Telamonius . From this spot was taken a view of the Hellespont , of which a neat engraving is annexed ; but this structure , from an inspection of the vault and broken walls , appeared of a much less ancient date than the time of the Grecian bc-ro . To those readers who feel interested in the vindication of Homeric authenticity , and in the dispute concerning the existence of ancient Ilium , the evidence of Mr . Dallaway must be of importance ; we therefore
g ive his own words . ¦ ' The succession of five tumuli , under the distant horizon , tends more than , any or her proof to ascertain tbe Trojan war ; about an hour and a half from Brurnabashi , on am easy eminence facing the west , we discovered vestiges of an ancient city . '— ' From the detail of topographical notices given by Homer , and from a comparison of the circumstances tie mentions , the strongest assurance will follow , not only of the existence , but the locality of Troy .
To insist that the poem should be historically exact , would be to make no allowance fat-the liberty of a poet : that it is topographically so , an examination of the present face of the country will amply prove ; ancl it is equally an object of classical curiosity , whether Troy existed or not , since the fable , if such it must be , is invariably accommodated to the scene of action . With respectful deference to a name , so long esteemed in the republic of letters , as that of Mr . Bryant , I humbly , but totally dissent from his scepticism on this
subjeft ; for it is not to the tasteless system of Le Bossu , in his Essay on the Epic , who has preceded Mr . Bryant in a similar hypothesis , that the opinion of many ages , and the satisfaction of ocular inspection , can be readily conceded . To establish a conviition on the mind , that the ' tale of Troy divine ' is a ' mere invention , may require yet . more than the most laborious learning can . lead to conjecture ; ancl , could it avail , we might lose in the pleasures of the imagination , as much as we should gain by truth , could bis arguments establish it , and lament , with the enthusiast in Horace ,
< tk-mptusper vim mentis gratissimus error . ' At Tenedos , Mr . Dallaway parted from the gentlemen who had been hitherto the companions of his journey , and returned to Constantinople . The following passage concludes the 14 . tr . section , in which is given an account of the Greek church . ' Since the close of the sixteenth century , the Russian church has claimed a jurisdictionindependent of the see of Constantinople . Nevertheless
ap-, _ peals have been made to that see , in cases of extraordinary importance . From thc success of the Russian anus in the two last wars , should the Ottoman power be eventually subdued , it seems not improbable that the religion of the Greeks may once more be triumphantly established on the shores of the ' Bosporus : that the crescent may no longer profane the domes of Christian temples ; and that the Patriarch of Constantinople may be restored to the dignitythough not to the power and influencewhich he enjoyed at the most
, , flourishing periods of the lower empire . ' ' The Armenians , ' we are informed , ' exist no longer collectively as a nation , once famous for the wealth and luxury of its monarchs ; but successively conquered , and alternately subject to the Turks and Persians , they have preserved only their native language { even tvhich is disused at Constantinoyie ) aud th . remembrance of their ancient kingdom . Dispersed over