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higher ; and went down to its banks, from the village of Ar abler, 

 about half a mile to the fouth-eaft of Bounar-bnjhi. The tor- 

 rent being then dried up, he refolved to afcend within its chan- 

 nel, fcrambling over trunks of trees and rocks borne down by 

 the impetuofity of the current. (Ch. IV.). He walked for five 

 hours between two chains of abrupt rocks, which border the 

 valley, and came into a plain, with a village at its entry, called 

 Jne or Ene. Here he found that a river difcharges itfelf into 

 the Simois, and that it takes its rife near a village called Bahar- 

 lar, to which he proceeded in five hours journey to the fouth- 

 ward, through a rugged and mountainous country. This 

 ftream he found to be the fuppofed Scamander of Mr Wood. 

 Returning to Erie he continued to trace the Simois, now the Men- 

 dere, up to the high mountain, whence he was affured it ifTued. 

 This proved to be Mount Cotylus, now called Cas-dabi, the moun- 

 tain of the gooje^ from which, mifled by Demetrius of Scepfis, 

 St R ABO makes the Scamander to flow down, confounding it 

 with the Simois. M. Chevalier refolved to afcend to the fum- 

 mit of the mountain, which, after being hindered from doing 

 for fome days, in confequence of a great fall of rain, he at laft 

 effedted ; of which expedition he gives an interefting defcrip- 

 tion, particularly of the fublime profpe(5ls he obtained. 



It does not appear that any of the fubfequent travellers I 

 have mentioned, went to the fource of the Simois, or the fum- 

 mit of Mount Cotylus, as M. Chevalier did: but Dr SiB- 

 thorpe remarks, that the fituation, wliere they fuppofed the 

 citadel of Troy to have been, is particularly fteep and rocky, 

 and is girt by the Simois, " which is now," fays he, " entirely 

 " dry : but perhaps the winter torrents may raife it into a con- 

 " fiderable river. Its banks are fringed with plants, agnus ca- 

 " ftus, and tamarilk *." 



Dr 



* See his Letter, Appendix, No, V. 



