216 Remarks on the Site of Troy 
they will confess, that the epithet broad is as 
descriptive and appropriate as any to be found 
in Homer. 
The results then of our present investiga- 
tion, if our arguments be correct, are the 
following. 
1. That the poems of the Iliad and Odyssey 
attributed to Homer were actually written 
by him. 
2. That the arguments brought forward 
by Bryant and others against the existence 
of Phrygian Troy andthe Trojan war are 
unsatisfactory, and opposed to the universal 
belief of ancient times. 
3. That the plain extending from the vil- 
age of Bournabashi to the Hellespont, and 
bounded by the promontories of Sigeum and 
Rheeteum, is the plain of Troy, the undoubted 
scene of the actions recorded in the Iliad. 
4. That the Scamander at the time of the 
Trojan war discharged its waters at Sigeum, 
and, consequently, that Troy must have stood 
on its western bank. 
5. That on the western bank of the Sca- 
mander there is no situation at all answer- 
ing to the site of Troy but that now occupied 
by Bournabashi. 
6. That the great distance of Bournabashi 
from the sea by no means presents an insu- 
