Description of the plain of Troy : with a map of that region, delineated from an actual survey : read in French before the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Feb 21 and 28 and March 21 1791 . Scalï cr1000 Irn.ù-fi ,h-T.ùuUUStnmd ? .VuiejaA PLAIN OF TROY. itc C H A P. XVII. the fite of Ancient Troy, THE tombs found on the eminence of Bounarbachi maot perhaps be thought fufficient to prove the fituationof the ancient city of Troy ; but there are many circumftancesin the poems of Homer which would be inexplicable and im-poflible, if we fuppofe it to hâve been in any other
Description of the plain of Troy : with a map of that region, delineated from an actual survey : read in French before the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Feb 21 and 28 and March 21 1791 . Scalï cr1000 Irn.ù-fi ,h-T.ùuUUStnmd ? .VuiejaA PLAIN OF TROY. itc C H A P. XVII. the fite of Ancient Troy, THE tombs found on the eminence of Bounarbachi maot perhaps be thought fufficient to prove the fituationof the ancient city of Troy ; but there are many circumftancesin the poems of Homer which would be inexplicable and im-poflible, if we fuppofe it to hâve been in any other place. The village of Bounarbachi is fituate on the fide of aneminence, which is expofed to every wind.—Homer, in fpeak-ing of the city of Troy, gives it the epithet of tivep,ot<r<rci,windy . The famé village is placed at the termination of a fpaciousplain, the foil of which, being rich and of a blackifh colour,indicates its great fertility, and whofe produce at this day fup-ports the numerous adjacent villages.—Paris anfwers the in-vectives of Hector, by propofing to try his fkill in finglecombat with Menelaus, and fays to him, Whoever fhall prove viclorious,—you the reft of the
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