180 Remarks on the Site of Troy 
‘«‘ But when they came at length where Xan- 
thus winds 
“His stream vortiginous, from Jove derived, 
«There scattering the divided host, he drove 
«Part through the plain to Troy. 
Other part 
«Rushed down the sides of Xanthus: head- 
long plunged 
‘‘ With dashing sound into the dizzy stream, 
“They struggling shrieked, in silver eddies 
whirled.”’ 
Iliad. XXT. at the beginning. 
That any one, who has visited the plain of 
Troy, should maintain that such a description 
is more applicable to the Bournabashi stream 
than to the Mender, is perfectly unaccount- 
able. (17) 
Ancient Course of the Scamander, 
Ir is of little consequence to learn what 
was the course of the Scamander at the time 
of the Trojan war in the upper part of the 
(17) Chevalier and Mr. Morritt endeavour at considerable length to 
make Homer’s descriptions of the Scamander applicable to the Bourna- 
bashi stream, and also to make the Bournabashi stream agreeable to 
Homer’s description of the Scamander, but, in this instance at least, 
they have failed in making “the worse appear the better reason,” and 
the weakness of their argument is suited to the badness of their cause. 
