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these springs to Bournabashi, added to the 
strong coincidence which we recognize be- 
tween both its individual character and 
relative situation, and those of Troy, will 
afford a strong presumption in favour of our 
supposition. We will proceed then, first, to 
examine the nature of these springs, and, se- 
condly, the points of agreement between the 
neighbourhood of Bournabashi and the site 
of Troy. In the twenty-second book of the 
Iliad, where Achilles is pursuing Hector 
round the Trojan walls, we find the following 
description of the Scamandrian fountains. 
“And now they reached the running rivulets 
clear, 
“Where (26) of Scamander’s dizzy floodarise 
“Two fountains, tepid one, from which a 
smoke 
“‘Tssues voluminous as from a fire; 
«‘ The other, e’en in summer heats, like hail 
“Ts cold, or snow, or water fixed by frost. 
(26) “ Where from Scamander’s, &c.” Iliad XXII. 172. 
We have taken the liberty of altering “ where from” into where of, 
the latter being more correct. 
The commentators, unable to reconcile the statements of Homer, 
that the Scamander rose in Mount Ida, and yet that the “ fountains of 
the Scamander” were near the walls of Troy, have boldly asserted that 
the river on approaching Troy sank under ground, and appeared again 
at the surface on the Trojan plain:—a circumstance utterly without 
foundation. 
