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THE TROAD. 



Iv9ei(x? UTTo Toij vvv 'iXiou rriv x^x^" '^X^'^^ (rufMpu^g * duru, yivo[/,svog d ew? rij? 



Ksl^fvivUg. Now there is no other ridge or elevation in the whole 

 Troad to which these words can be applied, but that marked 44, 44. 

 in Mr. Foster's map ; there is no other commencing from New Ilium ; 

 no other connected with it, and running towards Cebrenia. If, then, 

 the plain of the Mender be one of the plains separated by this ridge 

 from the other plain, namely, that in which the Gheumbrek runs, 

 we have found the Scamander and Simois of Demetrius ; for the 

 Scamandrian plain is, he says, the " broader" of the two ; and that 

 expression only applies to the plain A, A, where the Mender flows, 

 consequently the other is the Simoisian, and the Simois is in the 

 Gheumbrek valley. 



8. In Major Rennell's Observations on the Topography of Troy, 

 p. 29., the passage we have quoted from Demetrius is thus rendered : — 

 " A narrow ridge divides each of the above plains from the other, 

 beginning near the present Ilium ;" but fxiyy.i; ng duxn^ is not a narrow 

 ridoe; l-rv ludsU-g drc-o r. v. 1., does not mean "beginning near the 

 present Ilium ;" but_/)'om the present Ilium ; and the words avf^cpu^g 

 duru are omitted. We shall make no other remark than this ; that 

 if the passage had been properly translated, it would not have suited 

 Major Rennell's hypothesis. See the plate in his work. No. 2., where 

 the ridge of land which he considers as corresponding to the dvx'^v of 

 Strabo, is not represented as beginning/ro/« New Ilium, and is not 

 connected with it. ■ i s . . .. 



9. With respect to the Trriyou of the Scamander, mentioned by the 

 poet, II. 22., it is evident that Demetrius thought one of them was 

 to be found, namely, the cold source, and not in the mountain but in 

 the plain ; he interprets the word W?'-? in the sense of " source near 

 the river;" (3»a to TrXvia-icv slvm Tov "^KafytoivSfiou ; instead of" source of the 

 river." The hot spring he thought liad failed. We mention this, 

 because it is generally supposed that the words in Strabo are the ex- 



. * ^ujiifuris is llic reading of four MSS. ; it means adharcns. See Stepli. in voc. 



