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[3] Wingless Victory.
[4] ”About 170 yards distant from the warm springs of the Scamander, towards the west, the cold sources are found, throwing out a considerable quant.i.ty of water from many openings in the rock. It has been discovered, by the help of a thermometer, which was thrust into a fissure as far as the arm would permit it to go, that this spring is equally warm with the former. The pool, however, which contains the water being of so considerable a size as to suffer it immediately to acquire the temperature of the atmosphere, it must undoubtedly have appeared cold before the invention of an instrument for ascertaining the real degree of heat. It would, therefore, have been thought cold in the days of Homer; and the poet is not incorrect who describes places and things as they appear to the generality of mankind.
Several other sources contribute to swell this division of the stream of the Scamander before its junction with the rivulets which proceeds from the warm springs.”--_Sir W.
Gell's Topography of Troy_, p. 76.
[5] ”The women of Bounarbas.h.i.+ yet frequent the spring, as their predecessors, the Trojan virgins, did before the invasion by the Greeks. The convenience afforded by the blocks of marble and granite to the women of the country, who always beat their linen on stones or boards during the time they are was.h.i.+ng, added to the sensible warmth of the water, has, in all probability, continued the practice of resorting to this spring in preference to any other. The Count de Choiseul Gouffier was informed by the Aga of Bounarbas.h.i.+, that the water threw up a very perceptible steam in the winter; and later experiments, made with the thermometer, prove beyond doubt that this is a warm source.”--_Ibid._
[6] There, on the green and village cotted hill, is (Flank'd by the h.e.l.lespont, and by the sea,) Entombed the bravest of the brave--Achilles,-- They say so--(Bryant says the contrary); And further downward, tall and towering still, is The tumulus--of whom? Heaven knows: 't may be Patroclus, Ajax, or Protesilaus,-- All heroes, who, if living still, would slay us.
[7] Celebrated in history as being the place where the crusaders, under G.o.dfrey of Bulloigne, were encamped.
[8] These pretty diminutive coins are called _dust_ by the common people; a name not at all inapplicable, as in size they resemble the following mark [Symbol: circle], and are thin as a gum wafer. A handful of them scarcely equals a s.h.i.+lling in value.
[9] _Balouk_, a fish in Turkish.
[10] Infidel.
[11] All Saints.
[12] Similar changes have been produced in other parts of the East. ”An extraordinary revolution,” says Mr. St. John, ”has been effected since the year 1817, when the Christian, according to a former traveller, was turned away with insult from the Castle (the Pharos); for now a Christian, having examined at his leisure the military portion of the structure, entered into the mosque in his boots, under the guidance of a Turkish officer.”--_Egypt and Mohammed Ali_, vol. ii. p. 386.