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gation, he came again to the flream, where it turns into the 

 new canal, and traced it up to its fources already mentioned, 

 near Bounar-bafli, no doubt any longer remained on his mind, 

 that this was the trvie Scamander, which had formerly united 

 its water with the Simois. 



Succeeding travellers have, in the moft liberal and decided 

 manner, confirmed the genuinenefs of thefe inveftigations, and 

 acceded to M. Chevalier's conclufions. 



" We faw the place," fays Mr Hawkins, in his firft letter to 

 Mr LiSTON, " where the courfe of this river was diverted by 

 " an artificial canal to the Archipelago." And he adds, more 

 explicitly in his fecond letter : " The moft elfential point in 

 " fubftantiating the evidence of Chevalier is that of the canal, 

 " made to divert the waters of the Scamander from their origi- 

 " nal courfe towards the Simois. This canal we can bear tefti- 

 " mony to. The errors of Wood feem to arife from the over- 

 " looking this circumftance. As for Strabo, he had never 

 " vifited the fpot in all probabihty, and relied on the authority 

 *' of Demetrius of Scepfis *." Mr Liston himfelf afterwards 

 examined the river with the greateft care, and particularly tlie 

 new canal, and the old bed. This laft he croffed on bridges in 

 different places, and was convinced, that when, occafionally, the 

 flream of the Scamander is more copious, part of it ftill flows 

 into the Simois by this ancient channel. For he differed in 

 opinion from M. Chevalier in the idea, that the Scamander 

 is never fubjedl to any increafe or diminution ; (Ch. IV. xi.) ; 

 and faw no reafon why it j[hould not occafionally fwell in the 

 cafe of long continued and heavy rains ; though by no means 

 to fuch a degree as the Simois, which is fometimes dried up, 

 and fometimes comes down with the utmoft naagnitude and 



impetuofity- 



» See Appendix, No. V. 



