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days, from Ralonica he arrived at Tenedos, where meeting with two French merchants of Marseilles bound to Constantinople, he and they resolving to view Troy, hired a janizary for their conductor and guard, and a Greek for their interpreter. Landing there, they saw many relics of old walls, and many ruined tombs, some of which were pointed out to them as the tombs of Hector, Ajax, Achilles, Troilus, &c. and also those of Hecuba, Cressida, and other Trojan dames. Credat Judaeus! They were shown also the ruins of King Priam’s palace, and where old Achilles 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 duke of Florence, then studying at Pratolina; the third and fairest, with a large picture on one side, he bestowed, at Aix, in Provence, on his countryman Mr Strachan, then mathematician to the Duke of Guise, who had presented it to his Lord.
“Where the pride of Phrygia stood (says our author), it is a most delectable plain, abounding now in corns, 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
