And on the Trojan Plain, 175 
Ilium, is the first and only rising ground in 
that direction, and that it stands at the dis- 
tance of about a mile from what must have 
been the line of coast at the time of the Tro- 
jan war: (13) and we feel not the slight- 
est doubt but that this hill is the Throsmos 
of Homer. 
The Trojan Plain at the present day. 
ON this plain we now discover four rivers, 
if, indeed, three of them deserve the name. 
(14) The first is the Bournabashi stream, 
(13) Rennell, to whom all who interest themselves on this subject are 
deeply indebted for the light he has thrown on the ancient and modern 
topography of the Troad, has in his “ Observations, &c.” page 69 to 75, 
shown with great ingenuity and research, that the sea, at the time of the 
Trojan war, approached within 4-5ths of an English mile of New Ilium, 
and that the coast described a curve line, bending inland from 
Rheteum to Sigeum. 
Now, surely, after deducting from 4-5ths of a mile, the space which the 
most moderate calculator must allow for the triple line of ships and the 
ramparts, what remains is not a great distance to intervene between the 
camps of two formidable hostile armies. A less distance would not 
have afforded safety for the Grecian council, held without the ramparts ; 
would not have caused a necessity for leaving a Trojan guard; nor 
allowed the double expedition of the two Grecian chiefs on one side, 
and of Dolon on the other. 
(14) There are also some small torrents in different parts of the 
plain, but which are always dry in summer, and too insignificant to 
require notice, 
