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sources of the Scamander. Pope seems first char 
of all to have fallen into the notion of the double 
origin of this river : since his time, fVood, 
Chevalier, and their followers, have maintained 
that the Scamander had tivo sources, one of 
which was hot, and the other cold. The whole 
of this representation has been founded upon 
a misconstruction of the word riHrAI'. The 
Scamander has therefore been described as 
having its rise'' from two sources in the Plairiy 
near to the Seaman Gate of tlie city ; hence all 
the zeal which has been shewn in giving to the 
(1) An expression occurs in the Prometheus of Mscuyi^vs, voruftZi 
7t Tnya), [v. 89. ;). 8. Ed. Blomf.) where tlie same word is used; not 
•with reference to the main heads, or original sources, of rivers; bat 
to r.ll those springs by which they are augmented. 
(2) Tlius described in Pope's Translation of the twenty-second iwok 
ef the Iliad .• 
" Next by Scamander's double source they bound, 
•' Where two fam'd fountains burst the parted ground." 
There is nothing in the original, either of the double source or of the 
fnnte of the fountains. Homer's words are : 
Acia) eivtitfffoutri Xxa^aiSoay Si»}jsvT«j. 
'Sir. Bryant {Observat. cfc. p. 28.) interpreted this passage thus, — "They 
arrived at two basons of fine water, from which two fountains of the 
Heamander issue forth," — but combats the notion of their having any 
other relation to the river. Cowper seems to have succeeded more happily 
in a/fording the spirit and design of the original : 
" And now they reach'd the nmning riv'lets clear, 
*•■ Where from Scamander's dizzy fk)od arise 
" Two fountains." 
