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bra and the river flowing through it (which joins the Scamander near 

 the temple of Apollo) are in the vicinity of the ancient city, but 

 distant fifty stadia from New Ilium."* If we suppose with Bryant, 

 that the words apply to the conflux of the Thymbrius and Sca- 

 mander, the conclusion is the same. 



If, then, Thymbra was near to the site of Old Troy, according to 

 Demetrius (and in Homer we find nothing to the contrary), on what 

 authority, we may repeat, has it ever been placed by those who con- 

 sider Bournabashi, as representing the situation of old Troy, at a con- 

 siderable distance from this village? 



6. At Thymbra was a Temple of Apollo, as we learn from Strabo ; 

 by the Scholiast on Homer, II. %. 430., we are told it was ispov 

 eiriQuveg. Dr. Hunt found at Atche-keui, to the S. E. of Tchiblak (fig. 

 45. in Mr. Foster's map), some ruins and Greek inscriptions ; one of 

 the latter mentions Apollo. In this very part of the plain we are 

 about five miles from New Ilium, the distance of Thymbra from that 

 place as given by Demetrius. A stream flowing near Atche-keui is 

 noticed in Kauffer's map ; the same is also observed by Mr. Hob- 

 house, 153. In this district of the Troad he was inclined to seek the 

 plain of Thymbra and the river Thymbrius ; and Dr. Hunt's disco- 

 very of the ruins there, and the inscription mentioning the name of 

 Apollo, may be considered as pointing out the site of the temple of 

 that deity, and confirming Mr. Hobhouse's opinion. 



7. Demetrius, when speaking of the Simoisian and Scamandrian 

 plains, uses these words: — " A certain ridge or hilly tract of consider- 

 able size separates each of these mentioned plains one from the 

 other. It takes its beginning straight from New Ilium ; is connected 

 with (or attached to) it, and reaches to Cebrenia." Aiepyst <T Udrepov 



* For the site of New Ilium, see Dr. Clarke's Travels, vol. iii., and Sir W. Gell's Topo- 

 graphy, p. 117. " The discovery of inscriptions ascertaining the site of New Ilium," &c. 



f 'Ao^ijv, collis; rbv Stv%evct 8»a^coo-«j, Plut. in Pericle, collem cingens. Constant. Lexic. 

 The avyyv rcov s. a. implies, that the ridge of land stretches out from the two bending hills 

 which he had before mentioned. 



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