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I. The river Mender is the Scamander of Homer, Strabo, 
and Pliny. The amnis navigabilis of Pliny # flows into the Ar¬ 
chipelago, to the south of Sigeum.f 
IT. The Aianteum, or Tomb of Ajax , still remains; an¬ 
swering the description given of its situation by ancient authors, 
and thereby determining also the exact position of the naval" 
station of the Greeks. 
III. The Thymbrius is yet recognized ; both in its present 
appellation Thymhreck , and in its geographical position. 
IV. The spacious plain lying on the northeastern side of the 
Mender, and watered by the Callifat Osmack , is the Simoisian; 
and that stream the Simois. Here were signalized all the prin¬ 
cipal events of the Trojan war. 
V. The ruins of Palaio Callifat are those of the Ilium of 
Strabo. Eastward is the Throsmos , or mound of the plain. 
VI. The hill near Tchiblack, if it be not the Callicolom , 
may possibly mark the site of the village of the Ilieans, men¬ 
tioned by Strabo, where ancient Ilium stood. 
VII. Udjek Tepe is the tomb of iEsyetes. The other tombs 
mentioned by Strabo as at Sigetim, are all in the situation he 
describes. The tomb: of Protesilaus also still exists, on the 
European side of the mouth of the Hellespont. 
VIII. The springs of Bonarbashy may possibly r have been 
the aoiai nHiAi of Homer; but they are not sources of the 
Scamauder. They are, moreover, warm springs. 
IX. The source of the Scamauder is in Gargarus, now 
called Kasdaghy y the highest mountain of all the Idoeao 
chain. 
X. The altars of Jupiter, mentioned by Homer, and by 
iEscbyles, were on the hill called Kuchunlu Tepe , at the foot 
of Gargarus; where the ruins of the tempie now remain. 
* Plin. Hist. Nat lib. v. p. 277. Ed. L. Bat . 1635. 
•f “ The following passage of Pliny is attended with some difficulty; but the expres¬ 
sion amnis navigabilis , applied to the Scamander, may be well explained by Plutarch, 
in two passages to which I shall refer: by these it appears that the epithet navigabilis 
was given by the ancients to small streams. The word mraiios, as well as amnis , wa3 ; 
used by them when speaking even of torrents. Strabo, lib. ix. 6, 8. 
41 ‘ Scamander , amnis navigabilis: et in promontorio quo dam Sigeum oppidim dein 
partus Achawrum , in quern infiuit Xantfius , Simoenti junctus; stagnwnque prius facitrn 
P aloes camanderJ 
“ Plutarch speaks thus, in two places, of the river Melas, in Phocis; a part of Greece 
which he knew most intimately, from being born there: ‘The Melas, spread out into 
navigable marshes and lakes (tAp ir\ma xcti Af|J.va*,) makes the plain impassable. 
Again : 4 The Melas is navigable at its sources (ttAcoTpos h npyaTs,) Vit. Pelop„ et 
Syllae. The marshes on the Plain of Troy, made by the river, are mentioned by 
Strabo, p. 059. We have, then, the Meins, a small river? navigable at its sources, and 
with.navigable marshes,” Walpole's M S« Jo* inuH. 
