APPENDIX, No. III. 9- 



Even in Strabo's time the fite of Old Ilium was unknown, 

 and was a fubjed of difpute; but he marks out diftindly a new 

 Ilium. Alexandria Troas was a different place from both, and 

 lay more to the fouthward. New Ilium was twelve ftadia (three- 

 eights of a German mile, fomewhat lefs than two Englilh miles) 

 from the Grecian harbour. Thirty ttadia (almoft a German 

 mile, or about four Englifh miles and an half) higher up, eaft- 

 • ward from New Ilium, and nearer Mount Ida, was fituate Old 

 Ilium, on a fpot where then flood a village named Ilivun *. 



The road from the city of Troy to the fea Ihore ran from 

 the Scsan Gate, paft a beech tree, to the tomb of Ilus, on 

 which flood a pillar f. Another monument was called Ba- 

 tieia, or the tomb of the Amazon Myrinna, an infulated hil- 

 lock, where the Trojans took pofl in the firft battle. (Iliad, II. 

 811—15.). Upon another tomb, that of ^syetes, fat Polites, 

 as a fcout on behalf of the Trojans. (Iliad, II. 793.). The Sca- 



« Load roar'd the Xanthus, and the mouth of the Simois ;" fo they were not then uni- 

 ted at the mouth. A little after, (lin. 319.), « Thej were dragging the wooden 

 " horfe, but were retarded, the way being interfefted by rivers, and very uneven." 



StRABO, XIIT. p. 889. 'Ov yij (Il0S) {.TaSfe .'Sjt/rt Ti» ^ix„ ci Wf £aT» (Ncw 

 Ihum), ixxi 5^i3<!, T<'Tp,^«o.T« i>aT£pa. TTfi; i^ Ktt.) OTgJ; tJv ihv, y-nt rr„ A^gJ^n'ay, (as 'this 



old habitation of Dardanus lay ftill deeper in the mountains II. XX. 216, 217. 

 northward from Old lUum, Strabo, XIII. p. 891. D.) .^.i ri. ,5. ,«^«^^,„ u/« 

 «i^«.. Compare p. 891. A. 892. D. When Homer fays of Ilium I. oiJ;V ■>'i^i>^'<'r,, 

 this is faid in refpeft to Dardania, which lay among the mountains. Troy, however, 

 aaually flood at ihe/oot of the hill, at the entrance of the valley or the plain. , .' . 



+ Iliad XI. 166. 371. Here Hector had his poft, on the night when he eni 

 camped before the Grecian camp. (X. 415.). Here Paris flood behind the pillar, 

 when he wounded Diomede with an arrow. (XI. 372.). Juft by the beech Apollo 

 flood near the city, and the place muft likewife have commanded a view of the coun- 

 try. (XXI. 549.). 



