And on the Trojan Plain. 201 
The lively imagination of Chevalier dis- 
tinguishes amongst these ruins the palace of 
Priam, Hector, Aineas, and some other he- 
roes; but what data he can have for these 
fancies we are at a loss to conceive. 
Such areour principal grounds for believing 
that Bournabashi occupies the site of ancient 
Troy. Its lying on the western bank of the 
Scamander, the existence of two such sin- 
gular springs in its vicinity, the character of 
the hill itself, the remains of old. masonry, 
and pieces of marble and granite found upon 
and about it, its situation relative to the plain, 
the sea, and the rivers, must be allowed to form 
a strong presumption in its favour; and we 
have little hesitation in saying, that had 
Chevalier’s account of the rivers been recon- 
cilable with actual facts, and with the Iliad, 
and his springs been really warm and cold, 
or good reason shown why sucha belief should 
exist, instead of being regarded merely as an 
innocent enthusiast, he would to this day have 
enjoyed the glory of deciding this interesting 
uestion. It is now time to consider, as briefly 
s we can, the objections to which this hypo- 
esis is exposed. 
The first is a difficulty of our own creating, 
having changed Chevalier’s rivers, but re- 
ed his site of Troy, we have thrown the 
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