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any thing to indicate the site of the Village, 
where it was believed, in the time of Strabo, 
ahd where he maintains, that antient Ilium 
stood, we cannot be very far from the truth. 
Previously, however, to the introduction of Plan of the 
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observations relating rather to the conclusion of Expedition. 
our examination of the country, the Reader may 
feel his curiosity gratified by an account of our 
expedition, from the moment when we landed 
at Koum-kale. We had resolved to penetrate 
those recesses of the mountains, whence the 
principal river derives its origin ; a region then 
unexplored by any traveller: and afterwards, 
by ascending Kazdaghy, the loftiest ridge of 
the whole chain, at that time covered with 
snow, to ascertain, from the appearance of the 
Plain, and from the objects connected with it, 
whether its summit might be deemed the Gar- 
garus of Homer ; described as being upon the 
left of the army of Xerxes, during its march 
from Antandros to Ahjdos\ But as the Thym- 
hrius, a river still retaining its antient name, in 
the appellation Thymhreck, and which here 
disembogues itself near the embouchure of the 
Mender, has been confounded by Dr. Chandler 
with the SiMois of Homer, we determined first 
(l) Herodot. lib. vii. 
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