APPENDIX, No. III. 97 



Even in Strabo's time the fite of Old Ilium was unknown, 

 and was a fubjedl of difpute ; but he marks out diflincflly a new 

 Ilium, Alexandria Troas was a different place from both, and 

 lay more to the fouthward. New Ilium was twelve (ladia (three- 

 eights of a German mile, fomewhat lefs than two Englifh miles) 

 from the Grecian harbour. Thirty ftadia (almoft a German 

 mile, or about four Englifh miles and an half) higher up, eafl- 

 ward from New Ilium, and nearer Mount Ida, was fituate Old 

 Ilium, on a fpot where then flood a village named Ilium *. 



The road from the city of Troy to the fea fhore ran from 

 the Scaean Gate, paft a beech tree, to the tomb of Ilus, on 

 which flood a pillar f. Another monument was called Ba- 

 tieia, or the tomb of the Amazon Myrinna, an infulated hil- 

 lock, where the Trojans took pofl in the firfl battle. (Iliad, II. 

 8i I — 15.). Upon another tomb, that of JEsyetes, fat Polites, 

 as a fcout on behalf of the Trojans. (Iliad, II. 793.). The Sca- 



VoL. IV. n mander 



** Load roar'd the Xanthus, and the mouth of the Simois ;" fo they were not then uni- 

 ted at the mouth. A little after, (lin. 319.), " They were dragging the woodea 

 " horfe, but were retarded, the way being interfered by rivers, and very uneven." 



Odoi S' iSa^vviro f4.etx.fii, 



* StRABO, XIIT. p. 889. 'Of yiig (IlCS) hravict. J5gu« t^k iroAfy tv tvt la-rrj (NcW 

 Ihuni), iXAa i^Mov Ti TftcCKOtrx aiiUTipu 77f«; ew xxt ■argo? t^v leiiv, y.at rr/v A^gcxv/oey, (^as thlS 



old habitation of Dardanus lay ftill deeper in the mountains II. XX. 216, 217. 

 northward from Old Ilium^ Strabo, XIII. p. 891. D.) ;j»Ta 7r,v >£;» y.et\uficr/it Wa 

 Huf/iviv. Compare p. 891. A. 892. D. When Homer fays of Ilium l» -aiSM we^-oAicrTo, 

 this is faid in refpefl; to Dardania, which lay among the mountains. Troy, however, 

 actually ftood at theybo^ of the hill, at the entrance of the valley or the plain. 



f Iliad XI. 166. 371. Here Hector had his poft, on the night when he en- 

 camped before the Grecian camp. (X. 415.). Here Paris ftood behind the pillar, 

 when he wounded Diomede with an arrow. (XI. 372.). Juft by the beech Apollo 

 ftood near the city, and the place muft likewife have commanded a view of the coun- 

 try. (XXI. 549.). 



