208 Remarks on the Site of Troy 
are confident that no argument whatever 
would have heen founded upon it.(30) 
-It is farther objected, that if Troy stood 
at Bournabashi, its distance from the shore 
would be too great to admit of the transactions 
recorded in the eighth book of the Iliad, 
We read there, that the Greeks, being van- 
quished and shut within their ramparts, are 
saved by the approach of night. The Tro- 
jan army encamps on the Throsmos, and 
Hector, calling a council, gives the following 
charge to his troops. 
“With despatch 
“Drive hither from the city fatted sheep 
«And oxen, bring ye from your houses bread, 
“Make speedy purchase of heart-cheering 
wine, 
‘And gather fuel plenteous.”’ 
Had Troy, it is said, been distant from the 
Trojan camp seven or eight miles, it would 
have been mere mockery to have told them 
to go home to procure refreshment, as an at- 
tack on the Grecian camp was announced for 
(30) Since this Essay was read to the Society, a work on the same 
subject has made its appearance from the pen of Mr. Charles Maclaren, 
for ashort outline of whose theory see Appendix. Mr. Maclaren is aware 
of the confusion which exists in the account of this battle, and so decisive 
does it seem (o him, that he totally abandons the argument founded upon 
it, and looks elsewhere for proofs that Troy stood at no great distance 
from the shore. 
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