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The bed of the Scamander (Mendere) is some 200 feet wide, but in the dry season the stream becomes a slender brook only three feet deep (Journal R. G. S. xii. 34).

τὸ Πριάμου Πέργαμον. The Homeric Πέργαμος ἄκρη, the acropolis of New Ilium, the modern Hissarlik, excavated by Schliemann and Dörpfeld.

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