202 Remarks on the Site of Troy 
city without the plain bounded by the Simois 
and Scamander, and where all writers, we 
believe, suppose that it stood. 
‘There appear, however, no other grounds 
for this supposition than the following: first, 
that only one stream, the Scamander, is 
mentioned as being crossed, in passing from 
the fleet 1o the city, whereas in the case we 
suppose, both Simois and Scamander must 
have been crossed by the armies: and secondly, 
that as in the beginning of the sixth book 
the battle which commenced under the walls 
of Troy is represented as still being waged, 
“With various fortunes on the middle plain 
“ By Simois laved and Xanthus’ gulfy stream, 
it is fair to conclude that Troy itself stood 
on the middle plain. 
With respect to the first reason, the silence 
preserved about one river is fully accounted 
for by the insignificant size of the Simois, 
which, presenting no impediment whatever 
to the passage of an army, need never be al- 
luded to in connexion with such an event. 
As to the second reason, we reply, that by 
attentively tracing the movements of the ar- 
nies in the latter part of the fifth book, we 
shall find the Greeks in full retreat to their 
camp, and that at the commencement of the 
sixth book they must bave been already far 
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