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springs of Bonarhashy the name of those sources, 
although they be many in number, and all of 
them be ivarm springs, as will hereafter appear. 
Having once admitted this palpable delusion 
concerning the sources of the Scamander, not- 
withstanding the very judicious remonstrances 
of Mr. Bryant upon this part of the subject, and 
the obvious interpretation of the text of Homer , 
the wildest theories ensued'. All attention to 
the Plain of Troas on the north-eastern side of 
the Mender was abandoned; nothing was talked 
of but Bonarhashy, and its ivarm fountains ; 
and these being once considered as the sources 
of the Scamander, were further reconciled with 
Homers description, by urging the absurdity 
of believing Achilles to have pursued Hector on 
the heights of Ida, when the chace is said to 
have happened near to the walls of Troy. But 
the plain matter of fact is this; that Homer, 
in no part of his poems, has stated either the 
temperature of the Scamander at its source, or 
its double origin. In no part of his poems is 
there any thing equivocal, or obscure, concerning 
the place whence that river issues, or the nature 
of its torrent. It is with him, * Scamander, 
(]) Among others, tliat of making the Heights of Boiun-bash^ a part 
of the chain of Mount Ida. with which they have no connection. 
