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 156 Primitive Greece : Mycenian Art. (the Homeric Simois) and the Kemar (ancient Thymbros) would have to be embanked so as to prevent their overflow. Their direction is from east to west. The Bunarbashi rivulet flows to the sea through a channel or tunnel cut right through the rocky ridge which skirts the ^Egean to the westward. The Fig. 33. — Map of Troy. current of the Scamander sinuates through the middle of the plain, dividing it into two equal sections or thereabouts, east and west. As a rule the river can be crossed at almost any point ; but after heavy rains, or when the snows on Mount Ida begin to melt, it rises and overflows its banks, and part