190 Remarks on the Site of Troy 
After a candid consideration of our argu- 
ments, and more particularly after an accu- 
rate examination of the history of the battle 
to which we have been referring, we think 
that all must admit the probability, and some 
we flatter ourselves will allow the certainty, 
of the Scamander’s discharge at the Sigean 
promontory during the Trojan war. It isa 
point on which we have dwelt rather long 
from its extreme importance, for if our views 
of it be correct, Troy stood on the western 
bank of the Scamander. 
Writers on the Site of Troy and the Trojan 
Plain. 
_ Ir we except the early authors who do not 
aim at any exactness in determining the site 
ef Troy, and Mr. Hobhouse, who appears 
to be very sceptical in all the historic details 
of Homer, we may without much impropri- 
ety divide all writers on this subject into two 
classes:—those who follow the authority of 
Strabo, and those who, with the French tra- 
veller Chevalier, consider the village of 
Bournabashi to occupy the site of ancient 
Troy. 
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