And on the Trojan Plain. 213 
“ Covered the Scamandrian plain : 
«They overspread Scamander’s grassy vale, 
“Myriads, as leaves, or as the flowers in 
spring. 
As this tomb is only once mentioned in the 
Iliad, and from the use it is then applied to 
must have been lofty, either in itself, or in 
its situation, it could not have stood on the 
plain where the armies fought, or we should 
hear of it frequently, as of the tomb of Ilus. 
We should at once infer from the account 
given of it, that it occupied some command- 
ing situation on one side of the plain, or, in 
other words, just such a point as that where 
we find the Udjec Tepé. And if Polites did 
not quit his post, which it appears he did not, 
until long after the advance of the Grecian 
army, his speed would not be useless to him 
in returning to the Scean gate. 
There are still to be found some mounds 
on the plain, which may be those of Myrinna, 
which 
* Lifts its head in Ilium’s front,” 
and of Ilus, where Hector held his nightly 
council, but they cannot positively be iden- 
tified. Indeed almost every tomb in the 
lower part of the plain has by turns been 
taken for that of Ilus. Of the Grecian ramparts 
there are no remains, which considering the 
