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98.
in Lydia, formed by the river
Cayster, near its mouth. See
Virgil, "Georgics," vol. i. 383,
sq.
—Scamander, or Scamandros,
was a river of Troas, rising, according
to Strabo, on the
highest part of Mount Ida, in
the same hill with the Granicus
and the OEdipus, and falling
into the sea at Sigaeum;
everything tends to identify it
with Mendere, as Wood, Rennell,
and others maintain; the
Mendere is 40 miles long, 300
feet broad, deep in the time of
flood, nearly dry in the summer.
Dr. Clarke successfully
combats the opinion of those
who make the Scamander to
have arisen from the springs of
Bounabarshy, and traces the