II. M. CHEVyiLlER' sTABfEAv de la Plaine de Troye j7- 

 lujlrated and confirmed, from the Observations offtibfe- 

 quent Travellers, and others. By Andrew Dalzel, 

 M. A. F. R. S. Edin. Profeffbr of Greek, and Secretary and 

 Librarian in the Univerfity of Edinburgh. 



\Kead Sept. 4. 1797.] 



AS the Members of this Society afforded to M. Chevalier 

 an early and warm encouragement and patronage, and 

 readily gave his Tableau de la Plaine de Troye a place in their 

 Tranfacflions *, as well as admitted the author to a feat among 

 their number ; and as that paper, fince the time of its publica- 

 tion, has excited a good deal of intereft and fpeculation, they 

 will, no doubt, hear with pleafure, that it has now received, at 

 leaft in all its material circumftances, a moft ample and fatisfac- 

 tory confirmation. 



Th e author, previous to his departure from England, in May 

 1 796, had expreffed an anxious defire that a fecond edition of 

 the Engiifli verfion of his Effay fhould be publilhed, improved 

 from Ibme materials I had coUedled, and by fuch amendments 

 as he Ihould communicate. But as this could not be done, 



without 



* See Vol. III. Lit. CI. p. I, &c. 



