192 Remarks on the Site of Troy 
a hill of conical shape, that of Atchkieu, 
answering to the Callicolone of Strabo; and 
the village of the Ilieans probably stood be- 
tween this hill and New Ilium. It is in this 
part of the plain that Rennell and many others 
place their Troy, on the double supposition 
that here stood the Lliean village, and that 
the Hliean village occupied the same spot as 
the ancient city.(23) 
The correctness of the first of these sup- 
positions we will not dispute, it being im- 
material, but to the truth of the second we 
must refuse our assent. In the first place 
because we cannot find in this part of the 
plain any spot answering to Homer’s des- 
cription of the site of Troy :—for instance, no 
warm and cold springs, and no rocky heights 
for the Pergama : and in the second place, be- 
cause we have shown reasons for believing that 
Troy did not stand on this side of the Sca- 
mander, but on the opposite or western bank. 
Since then the situation of the Iliean village 
as assigned by Strabo will! not answer to the 
site of Troy as described by Homer, let us 
examine the hypothesis of Chevalier who 
places Troy at Bournabashi. | 
This conclusion of Chevalier does not ap- 
pear to have been the result of careful ex- 
(23) See Rennell’s “ Observations, &c.” page 69 and 75. 
