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mander could not be far from the hillock where the tomb of 

 Ilus was. (XXIV. 349. 350. Compare 692, 693.). Nearer 

 the city, on the fouth-weft fide, and juft under the walls, the 

 Watch-tower mull: have flood, where the deities reforted*. Next 

 to it was the wild fig-tree f , and the fources of the Scamander j 

 and then the place where clothes were commonly waflied ij:. Be- 

 fore the city, on the north fide, was Callicolone (»aX^ zoXuvn)^ 

 a pleafant hill upon the Simois, five ftadia in circumference, and 

 ten ftadia from the village Ilium ||. 



That it fhould ftill be pofilble, after fuch a lapfe of time, to 

 recognife all thefe places, is not to be expedted; but there is one 

 of them which we fhould think could even yet be traced, and 

 which, if difcovered, would furnifh at once the moft certain di- 

 redlion for all the reft, and even for the fite of ancient Troy it- 

 felf ; — that is, the fources of the Scamander, fo accurately and 

 circumftantially defcribed by Homer, (XXII. 147. et feq.), 

 the one of them a warm and fmoking fountain, the other, even 



in. 



* Zkowi^. (,XX. 136.). 



f Egivi«. (XXII. 146. XI. 167.). Qnite clofe upon the walls, and at the place 

 where they were fo low that the Greeks had once attempted to force their way into 

 the city from that quarter. (VI. 433 — 9.). 



X See above, p. 44. D. 



II AccoRDiNG to Strabo, (p. 8o2. D), who borrowed this information from 

 Demetrius of Scepfis. The Venetian Scholiaft A, upon Ihad, XX. 3, quotes 

 the paffige refpedting Callicolone, as if taken from the latter ; but he mitlakes this 

 hillock for the ^fu<r,j.o<; wiiion. on the Scamander. He adds alfo, " Here it was that 

 " Paris faw the three goddefles." At v, 53. the obfervation is repeated, more 

 juftly indeed, but in a mutilated form. In all other refpefts, the places hitherto 

 mentioned are determined by M. Chevalier with great plaufibility and diflinft- 

 nefs. I find upon the map, which I had not an opportunity of feeing till too late, 

 the hill Callicolone more rightly laid down, than, from the words of the Memoir, 

 I had fuppofed ; (fee p. 94.) ; and 1 retraft what I there advanced. The paflages 

 refpeOiing Callicolone (XX. 53. 151) are not, as I imagined, contradiftorj. 



