PLAIN OF TROY. 135 
dignified by equal if not superior altitude, and chap. 
beamino^ the same degree of splendour from the v -^^ ,/ 
snows by which it was invested. 
Gargarus was partially concealed by a cloud, while Samothrace remained 
unveiled ; a circumstance so often realized ? All the march of Juno, 
from Olympus, by Pieria and Mmathia, to Athos ; from Aihos, by sea, 
to Lemnos ; and thence to Imhros, and Gargarus ; is a correct delineation 
of the striking face of Nature, in which the picturesque wildness and 
grandeur of real scenery is further adorned by a sublime poetical fiction. 
Hence it is evident that Homer must have lived in the neighbourhood of 
Troy; that he borrowed the scene of the Iliad (as stated by Mr. JFood, 
p. 182,) from ocular examination ; and the action of it, from the pre- 
vailing tradition of the times. 
