. Ilios : the city and country of the Trojans : the results of researches and discoveries on the site of Troy and throughout the Troad in the years 1871-72-73-78-79, including an autobiography of the author. rt of the site is a Turkish this cemetery and the ancient Scamander is flat ground, a sortof lagoon, which extends to the river. On the east side of the ancientScamander is the plain of the Simois, which runs out to the former riverin a bank, 2 metres = 6 ft. 7 in. higher than the left bank. Immediatelybelow this is the confluence of the Simois with the ancient

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. Ilios : the city and country of the Trojans : the results of researches and discoveries on the site of Troy and throughout the Troad in the years 1871-72-73-78-79, including an autobiography of the author. rt of the site is a Turkish this cemetery and the ancient Scamander is flat ground, a sortof lagoon, which extends to the river. On the east side of the ancientScamander is the plain of the Simois, which runs out to the former riverin a bank, 2 metres = 6 ft. 7 in. higher than the left bank. Immediatelybelow this is the confluence of the Simois with the ancient the latter bends suddenly at this spot to the west, its bed appears tobe the continuation of the Simois, which flows from the east: this fact has * Strabo, xiii. p. 601 : irpuTot odv Acrrv vphs t^ ^ifidfVTi Vi6\iov, t vvv /caXeTToi USKifffiOfva\ate7s, ol to Poheiov Karaffx^vTiS, avvtfKiaav qvk eV ei/tpKil rdirtf Sth KareffiraffQi) Tax«wi. G 82 THE COUNTRY OF THE TROJANS. [Chap. I. caused the error of the topographers, who make the Simois run directlyto the sea through the bed of the river In Tepeh Asmak. In this bendthe bank of the ancient bed of the Scamander, on the side of Koum Kioi, t I I f I I theatre » 500 1000 Settle in JPreiic^Mktres. 5S;; ?•*);

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