102 PLAIN OF TROY. 
CHAP, observations are applicable only to the qnes- 
^.„.^.J._^ tion of the war of Troy, so far as the truth 
of the story is implicated. The identity of the 
place where that war was carried 0n, so many 
ages ago, involves argument which can be sup- 
ported only by practical observation, and the 
evidence of our senses. It will be separately 
and distinctly determined, either by the agree- 
ment of natural pheenomena with the locality 
assigned them by Homer, or of existing artificial 
monuments with the manners of the people 
whose history has been by him illustrated. To 
this part of the inquiry the attention of the 
Reader is therefore now particularly requested. 
Tdcniityof jj- geems hardly to admit of doubt, that the 
the riaiii. ^ 
Plain of Anatolia, watered by the Mender, and 
backed by a mountainous ridge, of which 
Kazdaghy is the summit, offers the identical 
territory alluded to by the Poet. The long 
controversy, excited by Mr. Bryants publica- 
tion, and since so vehemently agitated, would 
probably never have existed, had it not been 
for the erroneous maps of the country, which, 
even to this hour, disgrace our geographical 
knowledge of that part of Asia. 
According to Homers description of the Trojan 
territory, it combined certain prominent and 
