Nearer at hand, we can trace the line of heights about the plain,
and see the river descending from the far-away water-gap by the
Bali-dagh. Opposite us stands Rhoiteion ; and stretching from it
towards us is the low sandy shore where the Greek ships lay, —

Koi nXrjaav &7rda'rjs
rjXovos ar6p,a paKpbvj ocrov <rvv€€pyadov uKpai.*

The sandy spit of Koum Kaleh runs out boldly, and looks like a
recent encroachment of the land upon the sea. The hypothesis of
Strabo, that in Homer's day a deep bay extended inland between

^ *• You shall see if you will, and if you care for that,
. . . shii^ sailing on the fishy Hellespont.'*

I//aif ix. 359.
2 *• The wide-rtiling Earth-shaker kept no blind watch :
For, wondering at the war and strife, he sat
High on the topmost crest of woody Samothrake ;
Thence all Ida was in sight.
And Priam's city and the Achaians' ships."

/Ir'ad xiii. 10.
' " And filled the broad mouth of all the coast
Within the promontories' bounds."

I/iat/ xiv. 35.
