182 Remarks on the Site of Troy 
decisively contradictory testimony, that a 
thousand years before the age of Strabo, that 
is, during the Trojan war, it flowed into the 
Hellespont at the same place. But as all 
writers, we believe, on this subject, whether 
they imagine the Bournabashi, or the Mender 
to be the Scamander, maintain, or rather 
seem to have taken it for granted, that this 
river discharged itself at Rhceteum, and as the 
decision of this question almost includes that 
of the site of ‘Troy, we must consider it more 
at large. 
Our first argument is, that the Scamander 
discharges its waters at Sigeum now, that it 
discharged them “near or towards Sigeum’’ 
two thousand years ago, in the time of Strabo, 
and that there is no decisive evidence that it 
ever discharged them any where else. Our 
second, that the appearances of the plain about 
the mouth of the river indicate that it has con- 
fined itself to one side of the plain, and main- 
tained pretty nearly its ancient course. And 
our third, that whilst the supposition of its 
discharge at Sigeum during the 'Trogan war, 
is perfectly agreeable to the details of the Iliad, 
towards Sigeum, and the former towards Rhoeteum, unite their streams 
a little in front of the present (i. e. new) Ilium : and the confluent stream 
discharges itself at Sigeum, forming first the Stomalimne, or lake of 
the mouth.”? (Strabo, p, 579.) See Rennell, p. 28, 
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