And on the Trojan Plain. 193 
amination or mature reflection, but a sudden 
idea that struck him on first visiting the 
springs we have before alluded to, which he, 
on being told by his guides that one of them 
_ Was a warm spring, immediately inferred to 
be the warm and cold fountains of the Sca- 
mander. Impressed with this notion, the hill 
of Bournabashi instantly presented itself as 
the Site of Troy, and the rocky heights behind 
the village as that of the lofty Pergama. 
The nature of the place itself and its re- 
Jation to the plain, and, still more so, the 
map which he published, agreeing well with 
the descriptions of Homer, for some time put 
an end to all controversy on the subject.(24) 
Subsequent travellers, however, could find 
no difference between the temperature of the 
springs, on the supposed coincidence of 
which with the fountains of Homer, Cheva- 
lier’s theory had been founded, and, perceiy- 
ing his forced interpretation of the text of the 
Iliad, and finding it utterly impossible to re- 
concile his account of the rivers with that of 
Homer and with facts, they returned once 
again to the authority of Strabo. 
(24) ‘* Voyage de la Troade.” Vol, II, 191. 
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