THE TROAD. 



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Remarks on the Demetrian System of the Troad, by the Editor. 



(The references are made to Mr. Leslie Foster's map.) 



1. Course of the Simois. It is plainly stated by Demetrius when 

 speaking of the two rivers, Scamander and Simois, that the former 

 approaches Sigseum, the latter Rhseteum ; o re Znupavfyog xai o Ltpo&ig' 

 o fiev tw Eiry&tu TrX^mottra^ 6 oe Voitsiu. L. xiii. There is no other 

 stream in the whole plain, to which the words alluding to the Simois 

 apply, but that in the valley of Gheumbrek. The course of it may 

 be seen* in Sir W. Gell's map*; and it may be said to pass to the 

 south of fig. 46., in Mr. Foster's map, to continue to run by fig. 47., 

 and then to the north of fig. 48. The stream is called in Dr. Hunt's 

 journal Kamara Sou -f •, or the aqueduct river, from a building of this 

 nature which crosses the stream at another part of the Troad. 



2. The Shimar of Professor Carlyle, (the Kalefatli of Dr. Clarke,) 

 flows in a direction south of fig. 44. 45., 44. towards fig. 16., where is 



* At the season of the year, in the month of May, when Mr. Foster visited the Troad, 

 the course of the stream is not very observable. Mr. Frere, in a letter to the editor 

 dated from Pera, speaks in the following manner of it : — " Descending from the south- 

 ward the hills into the plain of the Thymbrius, we came to the left bank of that 

 river, a little below Halel Eli (fig. 47.), and following its course upwards, crossed it 

 at a ford at the eastern extremity of the village, and, winding to the left through an 

 extensive tract of ruins, then riding some time west, or north-west, along a plain of 

 pasture, we began to ascend some gravelly hills connected with the promontory of Ajax. 

 In traversing this pasture, we crossed a river, or rather a water, (for it seemed nearly 

 stagnant, whereas the Thymbrius is a clear and rapid stream,) which must, I should 

 say from the position of the ground, fall into the Thymbrius, but I cannot say that it 

 does certainly." 



f The Kamara of Dr. Hunt is the Shimar mentioned in the Journal of his fellow- 

 traveller, Professor Carlyle. See Major Rennell's Topography of Troy. Dr. Hunt says 

 the word is written in his own papers Kamara and Tchamara. Kamara is an arch 

 in modern Greek ; hence applied to an aqueduct. K is pronounced in many parts of 

 the Levant as tch ; the word Tchamara the Professor writes Shimar. 



