164 Remarks on the Sile of Troy 
stant epithet of “ Wind-swept Ilium,” would 
be inapplicable. Aineas would not have 
addressed Hector in the words, 
«Shame is our portion if we climb again 
«The heights of Tlium:” —-Zad XVII. 393. 
nor would the poet have said of Priam, 
“But when from Tlium’s gate into the plain 
“Fle had descended,” &c. Iliad XXIV. 411. 
We should conclude therefore that Troy stood, 
not in the plain, but on a hill, which sloped 
down to the plain in the direction of the sea. 
8 be Pergama, or lofty citadel of Troy, 
occupied some rocky heights at the back of 
the city, which lay between the Pergama 
and Scean Gate. The Scean Gate was the 
one nearest the plain: from it the army 
always sallied forth to battle, and through it 
they retreated when pursued by the victorious 
Greeks. 
Such then isa brief sketch of Troy and the 
Trojan plain, as collected from the details of 
the Iliad. But itisnecessary to our subsequent 
investigation, to make a more minute enquiry 
into the nature and extent of the Grecian camp, 
the stations occupied in it by the principal 
heroes, the extent of the ramparts which de- 
fended the Grecian camp, and the situation 
of the Throsmos, or rising ground where the 
