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plain, but of the very greatest to ascertain 
correctly at what point it discharged its wa- 
ters into the Hellespont. This, from the 
nature of the country, must have taken place 
somewhere between the Rheetean and Sigean 
promontories, and that it did not flow through 
the camp of the Greeks we may assert with 
confidence; for besides the extreme incon- 
venience and risk of having a river from 300 
to 400 feet wide traversing the camp, it must 
have been frequently alluded to by Homer, 
and mentioned more particularly in the battle 
when the Grecian lines were stormed. We 
may, therefore, without hesitation conclude 
that it flowed into the Hellespont, close under 
either the Rheetean or Sigean promontories. 
As Troy and the Grecian fleet stood on 
opposite banks of the Scamander, if this 
river discharged itself at the Sigean pro- 
montory, Troy must have stood on the west- 
ern bank, if at the Rheetean, on thé eastern. 
Now, asin the present day the Scamander dis- 
chargesitswatersat Sigeum, andas Strabo(18) 
informs us that in his time, near two thousand 
years ago, it discharged them ‘‘near or to- 
wards Sigeum,” (19) it would not be very 
unreasonable to conclude, in the absence of 
(18) Strabo flourished in the reign of Tiberius, and died about A.D, 25, 
(19) “The rivers Scamander and Simois, the latter by directing its course 
