The topography of Troy, and its vicinity - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1804 Excerpt: ...with regard to the tomb of Antilochus, that a line drawn through those points would also pass through the summit of Ida, which appears towering above such of its branches as immediately encircle the plain. If then the mountain can be so plainly discovered from the shore, it was no great stretch of imagination in the poet to represent the most powerful of the gods as looking down from thence on the battles of Troy; nor is this less allowable with regard to the summit near the promontory of Lectos. The situation of the city Troy may be discovered by carrying the eye from the summit of Ida toward the right, till the view of the distant mountains becomes for a short space intercepted by a more lofty point of the nearer hills. This point will be easily distinguished by a few trees on its summit, and immediately below it is the hill on which the city was erected. The little village and mosque of Bounarbashi, now standing near the site of the Scaean gate, are perceptible, and above them the houses seem to have risen gradually upon the slope of the hill, where the Acropolis or Pergama is known by two tumuli, which occupy the summit. The Simois, after rising in the heights of Ida, at a considerable distance from the Hellespont, flows thought that Troy might be discovered somewhere in this vicinity. Whoever will take the trouble to look at the view, will see that nothing can be more faithful than the account of the geographer, and that the remark of Mr. Bryant, who cites Homer to prove that the hill lay before the city, and not nearer to Ida, only shows that the Pagus was not the Troy of Priam, which Strabo decidedly delivers as his own sentiment; observing that the real Troy lay somewhere in the neighbourhood, an opinion equally agreeable to truth. II. xx. 151. and ...