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concerning the place whence that river issues, or the nature of its 

 torrent. It is with him, Scamander, flowing from Idt an Jove; 

 MEFA2 IIOTAMOS BA0YAINH2, the great vertiginous 

 river; bearing on his giddy tide the body of Polydorus to the 

 sea ; the angry Scamander. The springs by which Achilles 

 pursues Hector were two fountains, or rivulets, near the bed of the 

 river, as expressly stated by the Poet ; but they had no connection 

 with the source of the Scamander, and therefore the rise of that 

 river in Mount Ida causes no objection to Homer's narrative. The 

 whole country abounds both with hot and with cold springs ; so 

 that unauthorized by the poet to ascend to the source of the Sea. 

 mander in search of them, we may rest satisfied with their posi. 

 tion elsewhere. 



Continuing along the southern side of Callifat Water, after hav- 

 ing crossed the ford, we came to some suins upon its banks, by 

 which the ground was covered to a considerable extent. These 

 consisted of the most beautiful Doric pillars, whose capitals and 

 shafts, of the finest white marble, were lying in the utmost disor- 

 der. Among them we also noticed some entire shafts of granite. 

 The temple of Jupiter being always of the Doric order, we might 

 suppose these ruins to mark the site of a fane consecrated to Moan 

 Jove ; but Doric was evidently the prevailing order among the 

 ancient edifices of the Troas, as it is found every where in the 

 district, and all the temples in that part of Phrygia could not 

 have been consecrated to the same deity. The ruins by the Cal- 

 lifat Water have not been hitherto remarked by any traveller ; al- 

 though Akerblad obtained, and published in a very inaccurate 

 manner, an inscription I also copied there. It is as old as the 

 Archonship of Euclid. Having already twice before published it, 

 both in the account of the Greek marbles preserved in the VestU 

 bule of the Public Library at Cambridge, and also in the Appen. 

 dix to the Dissertation on the Soros of Alexander, the introduction 

 of the original legend here would be deemed an unnecessary repe- 

 tition. It was inscribed upon the lower part of a plain marble 

 pillar : this we removed to the Dardanelles, and afterwards sent to 

 England. The interpretation sets forth, that those partaking of 

 the sacrifice, and of the games, and of the whole festival, ho- 

 noured Pytha, daughter to Scamandrotimus, native of Ilium, 

 who performed the office of Canephoros in an exemplary and dis- 

 tinguished manner, for her piety towards the goddess. In th 



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