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APPENDIX. 
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THE publication of Mr. Maclaren’s work, 
entitled “A Dissertation on the Topography 
of the Plain of Troy,” (Edinburgh 1822) is 
an additional proof, were any wanting, that 
the interest excited by this question is not yet 
subsided. As Mr. Maclaren takes.a different 
view of the subject from any we have been 
discussing, a short outline of his theory, and 
a few remarks upon it, appear to be in some 
measure called for. He supposes that New 
Tlium occupies the site, and was raised on 
the ruins of ancient Troy. That the Gre- 
cian camp could not have been so large, as 
to cover, in triple row, the space between 
Rheteum and Sigeum, and, consequently, 
that these two promontories are not those al- 
luded to by Homer. He maintains that the 
sandy point of Koumkaliis one of Homer’s pro- 
montories, and the opposite one, (see map, 
B,) across the present course of the Scaman- 
der, the other, and that the ships were drawn 
up between these two jutting points, in lines 
fiveships deep. The Mender he considers to be 
