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the plain between the camp and the city, (II. IV. 422. VI. 306.) ; 

 — the fecond, when the Greeks were driven back to their camp, 

 (lUad, VIII. 55—213.) ; — the third, which extends not only to 

 the flight of the Grecians into their camp, but likewife to the 

 florming of the camp itfelf by the Trojans, who break in and 

 fet fire to a fliip, till at length they are repulfed, and purfued al- 

 moft to the city by Patroclus. Here Patroclus falls ; and 

 the Greeks, put to flight, are once more driven back to their 

 camp. (Iliad, XI — XVIII.). In the fourth battle, Achilles 

 beats back the Trojans again to the city, and crowns his vic- 

 tory by the fall of Hector. 



No lively idea can be formed, either of thefe battles, or of 

 the florming of the camp, without fome general conception of 

 the environs of Troy. 



From Mount Ida, run two hilly ridges from the eaft; down to 

 the fea, where two promontories bound a jutting beach. The 

 promontory on the north is Rhceteum ; that on the fouth Si- 

 geum. Within thefe two ridges lies a plain, floping down to 

 the fliore, and inclofed within their femicircular compafs. (Stra- 

 Bo, XVIII. p. 892. B.). In this plain run two rivers : on the 

 north fide the Simois ; on the fouth the Scamander, called alfo 

 the Xanthus. The latter now difcharges itfelf into the fea to 

 the ibuth, below Sigeum, but formerly, before approaching the 

 fhore, it mufl have united with the Simois, fo that both rivers 

 had a common outlet into the fea, above or to the north of Si- 

 geum. This emboucbufe was furrounded with marly marflies, 

 and hence was called Stomalifiine j a name which occurs but 

 once in Homer, in an interpolated pafiTage. (Iliad, VI. 4.). The 

 exadlfituationis laid down by Strabo, (XIII. p. 890. A. Pliny, 

 V. 20. SS*')" 



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* Of all thefe places, the charts of Pope and Wood give very different views ;, 

 that of M.jC^HEVALl'EB,. however, accords exactly with what is faid by Strabo and 

 Eliny. fi 



