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flowino- from Idean Jove''; MEFAI nOTAMOl chap. 
.IV. 
BA0VAINHI, ^ the great vortiginous river ^ ; 'bear- ^w— v— _^ 
ing on his giddy tide the body of Polijdorus to the 
sea'^; ' the angry Scamander\' The springs 
by which Achilles pursues Hector were tiuo 
fountains ^ or rivulets, near to the bed of the 
river, as expressly stated by the Poet ; but 
they had no connection with the source of the 
ScAMAXDER, and therefore the rise of that 
river in Mount Ida causes no objection to 
Homers narrative. The whole country abounds 
both with hot and with cold springs ; so that, 
being unauthorized by the Poet to ascend to the 
source of the Scamander in search of those 
fountains, we may rest satisfied with their 
position elsewhere. 
Continuing along the southern side of Callifat Ruins by 
JVater"^, after having crossed the ford, we came osmacL'' 
to some Ruins upon its banks, by which the 
(2) Iliad *. (3) Hiail M. 74. 
(4) Iliad *. (5) Iliad *. 
(6) Aoia) -rriyai. II. X. 147. 
(7) The only person by whom the Callifat Water has been noticed, is. 
the Eligineer Kauffer. In the Map he drew up by order of Count Ludolf, 
the j^eapolita7i Minister at tlie Porte, and since published by Arrowsmith 
after our return to England, it is indeed introduced; but in so slight 
a manner, as to appear a much less stream than his " Scamander, vel 
Xanthus," which is not the case. 
