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mander could not be far from the hillock where the tomb of 

 Ilus was. (XXIV. 349. 350. Compare 692, 693.). Nearer 

 the city, on the fouth-weft fide, and juft under the walls, the 

 Watch-tower muft have flood, where the deities reforted*. Next 

 to it was the wild fig-tree f, and the fources of the Scamander ; 

 and then the place where clothes were commonly waflied J. Be- 

 fore the city, on the north fide, was Callicolone (xaX^ xo'Kuvti), 

 a pleafant hill tipon the Simois, five ftadia in circumference, and 

 ten ftadia from the village Ilium ||. 



That it Ihould ftill be pofljble, after fuch a lapfe of time, to 

 recognife all thefe places, is not to be expedled; but there is one 

 of them which we fliould think could even yet be traced, and 

 which, if difcovered, would furnifli at once the moft certain di- 

 redlion for all the reft, and even for the fite of ancient Troy it- 

 felf ; — that is, the fources of the Scamander, fo accurately and 

 circumftantially defcribed by Homer, (XXII. 147. et feq.), 

 the one of them a warm and fmoking fountain, the other, even 



in 



• ZxoTTia. (^XX. 136.). 



f E;.»S35. (XXII. 146. XI. 167.). Quite clofe upon the walls, and at the place 

 where they were fo low that the Greeks had once attempted to force their way into 

 the city from that quarter. (VI. 433 — 9.). 



X See above, p. 44. D. 



11 AccoRDiNG to Strabo, (p. 8o2. D), who borrowed this information from 

 Demetrjus of Scepfis. The Venetian Scholiaft A, upon Iliad, XX. 3, quotes 

 the paffige refpedling Callicolon^, as if taken from the latter ; but he millakes this 

 hillock lor the B-fnau.i', miiu^- on the Scamander. He adds alfo, " Here it was that 

 " Paris faw the three goddeiTes." At v. 53. the obfcrvation is repeated, more 

 juftly indeed, but in a mutilated form. In all other refpefts, the places hitherto 

 mentioned are determined by M. Chevalier with great plaufibility and diftindt- 

 nefs. I find upon the map, which I had not an opportunity of feeing till too late, 

 the hill Callicolone more rightly laid down, than, from the words of the Memoir, 

 1 had fuppt.fed ; (fee p. 94.) ; and 1 retraft what I there advanced. The puflages 

 rcfpefting Callicolone (XX. t,^. 151.; are not, as I imagined, contradiftory. 



