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rising in Mount Ida, as being a powerful 
river, crossed at regular fords, and is always 
denominated the “swift,” “dizzy,” ‘ whirl- 
ing,” “vortiginous,’’ Scamander. The public 
road between Troy and the Grecian camp 
crossed the Scamander, which is therefore 
generally admitted to have flowed between 
these places: it should, however, be noticed, 
that the armies frequently traverse the plain 
from the city to the fleet, without any allusion 
being made to the passage of the river. 
~ Homer makes very particular mention of 
two springs, one warm, the other cold, ri- 
sing under the walls of Troy, and which he 
calls, “Two Fountains of the Scamander,” 
from this circumstance some writers, and 
among'st them Pope and Chevalier, (7) whose 
theory we shall presently have to discuss, 
have imagined that this river actually took its 
rise near the city. 
The city was at a very considerable dis- 
tance from the sea, as we learn from many 
passages in the Iliad. If built on the plain, 
(8) as some authors have maintained, the con- 
(7) ‘* Voyage de la Troade.” 
(8) The belief that Troy stood on level ground, or at least on a 
gentle slope within the plain, appears to have no other foundation than 
the expression of AEneas, ‘‘Ilium had not yet been reared in the plain.” 
But this observation might mean nothing more than that the hill on 
which the city was built rose in or from the plain. 
