140 DISTRICT OF TROAS. 
two rivers. The scene of action can only be 
reconciled with the plain of Callifat Osmach, 
bounded on the left, to a person facing the 
Hellespont, by the Mender^-, which river is as 
necessarily proved to have been the Scamander. 
of Homer. 
Fountains Aftcr having passed the ford, we galloped 
basky. up to thc Aglicis mansion at Bonarhashy ; the 
name of which place, literally translated, sig- 
nifies " The head of the springs'"'' Immediately 
on our arrival, we hastened to them, keeping 
a thermometer exposed and pendent the whola 
way, as the sun was then setting, and a fa- 
vourable opportunity offered for an accurate 
Sature™" investigation of their temperature. Some pea- 
sants who conducted us, related the tradition 
concerning the supposed heat and cold of the 
different sources ; one only being, as they said, 
a hot spring. We desired to examine this first; 
and for that purpose were taken to a place 
(1) See the Vignette to the last Chapter. — Mr. Wood (Essay on 
Homer, p. 89.) was thoroughly impressed with the necessity of ad- 
mitting the Simo'is to be on the eastern side of the Scamander, by the 
remarks made upon Mr. Pope's Map, in which tlie Engraver had 
reversed the position, not only of the rivers, but also of the two 
promontories, Rhsteum and Sigeliivi ; *' so that," says he, " the Sca- 
mander runs on that side of Troy which belongs to the Simo'is." 
(2) Places are named in Wales after the same manner ; as Pen tre 
FYNNVN, * The head of the three springs' 
