ELAIN OF TROT. 
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rowed by the plough. The vie w it commands of the coast, 
toward the mouth of the Mender, may possibly entitle it to 
| their subsequent consideration, with reference to the sepulchre 
' of Myrinna, 
We now proceed* to the Callifat Osmak , or Callifat Water ? 
a river that can scarce be said to How toward the Mender.; 
yet so deep, that we were conducted to a ford in order to pass* 
Hundreds of tortoises, alarmed at our approach, were falling 
from its banks into the water, as well as from the overhanging 
branches and thick underwood, among which these animal^ 
of all others the least adapted to climb trees, had singularly 
obtained a footing. Wild fowl also were in great abundances 
and in the corn land partridges were frequently observed* 
I have no hesitation in stating, that I conceive this river to 
be the Simois; nor would there perhaps remain a doubt upon 
the subject, if it were not for the prejudice excited in conse¬ 
quence of a marvellous error, which has prevailed throughout 
all the recent discussion concerning Troas, with regard to the 
sources of the Scamander. Pope seems first of all to have 
fallen into the notion of the double origin of that river: since 
his time. Wood, Chevalier, and their followers, hqye main¬ 
tained that the Scamander had two sources, one of which 
was hot, and the other cold. The whole of this representa¬ 
tion has been founded upon a misconstruction of the word 
nHrAi.* The Scamander has therefore been described as 
l having its risef from two sources in the plain, near the Scaean 
gate of the city ; hence all the zeal which has been shown in 
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* An expression occurs in the Prometheus of iEscbylus, rzorctfj.$v n rnyai, (v. 89. 
p. 8. Ed. Blomf.) where the same word is used; not with reference to the main heads, 
or original sources, of rivers; but to all those springs by which they are augmented, 
f Thus described in Pope’s translation of the twenty-second book of the Iliad: 
“ Next by Scamander’s double source, they bound, 
“ Where two farrCd fountains burst the parted ground.? 
There is nothing in the original, either of the double source or of ihe/ame-of the 
fountains, Homer’s words are; 
Kpouvw 5* Fxavov xaAA»ppdw,- ?v6ct $(■ irr\ya\-. 
Aoiari &vaVcr<rovtn Exa/li&vdpou dirhmos. 
Mr. Bryant ( Observat. Ac. p. 28.) interpreted this passage thus: “They arrived at 
two basons of fine water, from which two fountains of the Scamander issue forth,”— 
but combats the notion of their having any other relation to the river. Cdwper seems 
to have succeeded more happily in affording the spirit and design of the original;. 
“ And now they reach’d the running riv’let’s deary 
“ Where from Scamander’s dizzy Seed arise 
Two fountain^. 
