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CHAP. XIV.] THE SIMOIS AND SCAMANDER. 317
elevated ground, about which, are the branches of Ida, with
their lower features; and from thence the pastoral plains of
Troy are seen spreading to the shores of the ^Egean and
Hellespont. Buffaloes, wild boars, herons and other aquatic
birds feed in the numerous marshes. At Hissarjik, about
four miles westward of north from Buiiarbashi, are the ruins
of New Ilium; and three miles onward, in the same direc
tion, is Mount Tepe, or the tumulus of Ajax, having the
supposed ruins of Rhoeteum on its northern side, overlooking
the Hellespont.
The position of ancient Troy at Buharbashi determines the Course of the
river eastward of it to be the Simois, and that on the west Scailoander -
the Scamander of Homer. 1 The course of the latter, after
passing the village, is nearly north-west, or almost parallel
to the Mendereh (the Simois) for about a mile and a half,
and it forms a marsh, on the eastern side of which, at some
distance onward, may be traced the remains of a bed once
carrying its waters into the Simois ; but at present the prin
cipal stream of the Scamander makes a tortuous course of
about two miles along the western side of the marsh to
Yerkasee Keui, from whence a canal conducts nearly the
whole of the stream, by some mills, to the Mediterranean at
Beshika Bay. A small portion, however, still runs into the
Mendereh, which makes a tortuous course from thence, in
the general direction of north, to the sea at the town of
Kum Kal'eh-si. Half a mile southward of the latter place,
between the Mendereh and the sea, are the tumuli called
after Achilles and Patroclus; and a little further along
the iEgean, beyond the village of Yerii Shehr, are the ruins
of Siffeum 2 and Achilleum, near the tomb of the former
hero. 3 The other streams to be noticed are the Khalifatli-
Asmak or Heptaporos, and the Dumbrek-su. The former
flows through the Troad a few hundred yards eastward of
the Mendereh, and, after receiving the latter, the ancient
Thymbrius, it falls into the Hellespont by one branch near
1 Iliad, lib. V., v. 114.
8 Strabo, lib. XIII., p. 595.
8 Pliny, lib. V., c. xxx.