178 Remarks on the Site of Troy 
is perhaps unnecessary to reply to itat length: 
its fall has involved in a common ruin the 
whole theory of Chevalier which rested upon 
it. We may content ourselves with observ- 
ing, that, besides the improbable circumstance 
of a feeble stream like that of Bournabashi 
giving its name to sucha river as the Mender, 
the character of both rivers on this supposition, 
more particularly of the latter, is totally “ir- 
reconcilable with Homer’s description of 
them. ‘The appellation of dizzy, whirling, 
swift, and vortiginous, beautifully descriptive, 
and admirably appropriate, when applied to 
the Mender, cannot, without the grossest 
violation of language, be referred to the 
small, clear, sluggish, stream of Bournabashi, 
short in its course, and, from the nature of 
its origin, (16) incapable of being flooded. 
Besides, Homer states distinctly and repeat- 
edly that it rose in Mount Ida, and we can- 
not admit Chevalier’s solution of the difficulty, 
that the hill of Bournabashi is a branch of 
that mountain. 
This confusion of the rivers evidently arose 
from Chevalier’s belief, that the springs near 
Troy, described in the twenty-second book of 
the Hliad, were actually those from which the 
(16) It rises in two warm springs deeply seated, and consequently 
liable to little or no alteration in the quantity of water they throw up. 
