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der is lofl ; and the combatants, individuals as well as fqua- 

 drons, are confufedly mixed with one another. (IV. 457, &c.). 



The ground in this neighbourhood muft have experienced 

 alterations by the overflowing of the rivers, as well as by the 

 operation of the Simois at its mouth. Homer himfelf inti- 

 mates this, when he takes notice, that not a trace of the wall of 

 the Grecian camp was remaining. (Iliad, XII. ad init.). Hero- 

 dotus alfo quotes the fhore of Troy as an inftance of fuch 

 changes, (lib. II. 10.). And fhould we even incline to reje(5t 

 the teftimony of Strabo, (lib. XIII. p. 890. A.), the fadl may 

 be regarded as certain. Whether the alterations of the ground, 

 however, have been fo great as Wood fuppofes, is a difl?erent 

 queftion *. 



Before the camp, as already mentioned, a plain, gradually 

 riling, ftretched towards Troy, diverfified, it fliould feem, with 

 feveral little eminences f. 1 hat the two rivers Simois and Sca- 

 mander inclofed this plain, and that farther down they united 

 with each other, Homer exprefsly teftifies [j: ; but he furnifhes 

 v\s with no further or more accurate information ||. The field 

 of battle lies in the neighbourhood of the Scamander §, and 

 is called likewife the Scamandrian Plain 51, though it alfo re- 

 ceives^ 



* M. Chevalier anfwers this queftion. 



f Of this kind was one immediately in front of the camp, the H^ucfcoi ^th'eiL 

 (Iliad, X. 160. XI. j6.). It lay juft before the place for crofling the Scamander, in 

 going from the camp, on the road towards Troy ; for in the lad battle the Trojans 

 had taken poft iTt S^mc^S KiSioio, (XX. 3.), and from thence the}* came, in the courfe 

 of their flight, to the paflage of the Xanthus, ^j^a* Hosv^iot/. (XXI. 2.). In fo far the 

 delineation, on M. Ghevalier's map, is erroneous. H. See above, p. 56, 57. D. 



t Iliad, V. 713. et feq. Vid. Strabo, XIII. p. 890. A. 892. C. 



II Strabo fays: "A little way before New Ilium the ftreams unite." It is- 

 doubtful, however, whethei' by this expreffion he means between Ilium and the fea, 

 or on the inland fide of the town. 



f Iliad V. 36. VII. 329. XI. 498-9. \ Iliad, II. 465. 467. 



