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giving to the springs of Bonarbashy the name of those sources* 
although they are many in number, and all of them warm 
springs, as will hereafter appear. Having once admitted this 
palpable delusion concerning the sources of the Scamander, 
slot withstanding the very judicious remonstrances of Mr. Bry¬ 
ant upon this part of the subject, and the obvious interpreta¬ 
tion of the|text of Homer, the wildest theories ensued.* * § All 
attention to the plain of Troas on the northeastern side of the 
Mender was abandoned; nothing was talked of excepting 
Bonarbashy, and its warm fountains; and these being once con¬ 
sidered as the sources of the Scamander, were further recon¬ 
ciled with Homer’s 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 the walls 
of Troy. But the plain matter of fact is, that Homer, in no 
part of his poems, has stated either the temperature of the Sca¬ 
mander at its source, or its double origin . lu 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, flowing from Idean Jove;’f 
meias noTAMOS BAerAiNH^, c the great vortiginous river ,’j 
6 bearing on his giddy tide the body of Polydorus to the sea 
6 the angry Scamander.’j| The springs by which Achilles pur¬ 
sues Hector were two fountains,** or rivulets, near the bed of 
the river, as expressly stated by the poet; but they had no 
connexion with the source of the Scamander, and therefore the 
rise of that river in Mount Ida causes no objection to Homer’s 
narrative. The whole country abounds both with hot and 
with cold springs; so that, unauthorized by the poet to ascend 
to the source of the Scamander, in search of them, we may rest 
satisfied with their position elsewhere. 
Continuing along the southern side of Callifat Water,ff af¬ 
ter having crossed the ford, we came to some ruins upon its 
banks, by which the ground was covered to a considerable ex¬ 
tent. These consisted of the most beautiful Doric pillars, whose 
* Among others, that of making the heights of Bonarbashy a part of the chain of 
Mount Ida, with which they have no connexion. 
f Iliad <£. x Iliad M. 74. 
§ Iliad <£. || Iliad <£. 
** Aoial t rn-ya. II. X. 147. 
tf The only person by whom the Callifat Water has been noticed, is the engineer 
Kaufter. In the map he drew up by order of Count Ludolf, the Neapolitan minister 
at the Porte, and since published by Arrowsmith after our return to England, iti® 
^ndeed introduced; but in so slight a manner, as to appear a much less stream than 
“ Scamander vel Xanlhu which is not the case. 
