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16 Hector, Ajax, Achilles, Troilus, &c. and also those in Hecuba, Cressida, and other Trojan dames. Credat Judaeus! They were shown also the ruins of King Priam’s palace, and where old Anchises dwelt. On a piece of a high wall, at the N. E. corner of Troy, our author found three pieces of rusted money; two of which he afterwards gave to the younger brothers of the duck of Florence, then studying at Pratolina; the third and fairest, with a large picture on one side, he bestowed, at Aix in province, on his countryman Mr. Strachan then mathematician to the Duke or Guise, who presented it to his Lord

“Where the pride of Phrygia stood, (says our author) it is a most delectable plane, abounding now in corn, fruits and delicate wines, and may be called the garden of Natolia; yet not populous, for there are but only five scattered villages in all the bounds: The length of Troy hath been, as may be discerned by the fundamental walls yet extant, about twenty Italian miles; lying along the sea-side, between the three paps of Ida, and the furthest end eastward of the river Simois; whose breadth all the way hath not out-strip’d