And of the Trojan Plain. 167 
In this calculation we have made no allow- 
ance for the width of the Scamander, which, 
with the marshes on its banks, together per- 
haps five to six hundred feet, should be de- 
ducted; nor for the wider passages for the 
chariots; nor for the tents, which were nu- 
merous, aud mingled with the ships; nor for 
the space occupied by the forum, altars, and 
courts of justice. Were a fair allowance 
made for all these circumstances, we have 
little doubt that the number of ships enumer- 
ated by Homer would, even in a quadruple 
line, have covered the whole bay between 
the Sigean and Rheetean promontories. 
Station of the Heroes in the Camp. 
From the transactions related in the eighth, 
tenth, and twelfth books of the Ihad, we may 
collect with considerable accuracy in what part 
of the fleet the principal heroes were stationed. 
That the ships of Achilles were at one ex- 
tremity, and those of Ajax at the other, and 
that Ulysses occupied the centre, we find 
clearly stated. 
« Agamemnon 
‘ i 
“High on Ulysses’ towering galley stood, 
