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ture ; and that the face of the ground exhibits nothing worthy 

 " of remark ; bruflies and huge unhewn ftones only being to be 

 " feen." 



Tbe Sources of the Seaman der. 



But the chief circumftance which afcertains the polition of 

 the city is the fources of the Scamander. Thefe M. Cheva- 

 lier was fo fortunate as to difcover, and defcribes as ftill to be 

 feen, a Httle below the village to the fouth, and as conlifting : 

 1. Of a folitary copious fpring, rifing from the bottom of a ba- 

 fon, bordered with pillars of marble and granite ; of which 

 fpring, in the month of September, he felt the water to be tepid ; 

 but was aifured that it is much warmer about the middle of 

 winter ; 2dly, Several fmall fprings of cold and limpid water 

 gufhing forth from crevices in the rock, at the bottom of the 

 low hills at the head of the plain, and which uniting into one 

 ftream, a little below, receive alfo the firft mentioned fountain, 

 and thus form the Scamander*. (Ch. IV. xix.). 



" We flept," fays Dr Sibthorpe, *' at Bounar-hajh^ a little be- 

 " low which rifes the Scamander, fed by numerous fprings of a 



pure cryftalline water. One of thefe is faid to be warm in 

 " winter ; it communicated to us no fenfation of heat." This was 

 about the middle of September. Dr Dallaway, who was there in 

 November 1 795, fpeaking of the hot fpring, exprefsly fays : " It 

 " is at leaft tepid ; and the Agha (in the front of whofe houfe 

 " it is to be feen, at a little diftance) told us, that, in the winter 

 " months, efpecially during froft, it is hot and fmokes." — " Ho- 

 " MER," adds he, " muft be allowed the privilege of a hot 

 " fpring, and a river full to the brink, if they happen once with- 



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* Compare Iliad, xxii. 147. 



