30 TABLEAU de la PLAINE de TROVE 



without a n,ew arrangement with the bookfellers, and as an ob- 

 ftacle occurred which rendered a delay neceflary, I have tho\ight 

 that it would, in the mean time, be agreeable to the Society to 

 have a fliort Abftradl of the mort material contents of the Eflay, 

 as now confirmed by fubfequent travellers, laid before them, 

 preceded by an account of the manner of its firft reception, of 

 the commianications of thofe travellers, and of certain objec- 

 tions that have been made to it ; and followed by an Appendix, 

 containing the papers and letters referred to in the foregoing 

 detail. 



Account of the Reception zvhich the Defer ipt ion of the Plain of T?'oy 

 at firjl met with. 



M. Chevalier, after his return from the Eaft, and before he 

 came to Edinburgh, vifited Paris, where he found the late M. 

 I'Abbe Barthelem Y, author of the Travels of the Young Anachai-- 

 fis, to whom he gave fome account of his excurfions into the 

 Troad. That celebrated and refpedlable fcholar was fo much plea- 

 led with the light he received, on this occafion, concerning that 

 famous claffical region, that he introduced M. Chevalier to a 

 party of his friends by the title of le Rejlaurateur de la Troade : 

 and it is probable that, if he had been favoured with M. Cheva- 

 lier's information previous to the publication of his great work, 

 he would have embellifliccl his book with a more fatis£k<flory de- 

 fcription of the Troad, than he found himfelf able to do from the 

 imperfe<5l and inaccurate accounts formerly given of it. 



In the year 1792, when the DijQTertation in queftion, which 

 the author had read in French before this Society, was publifh- 

 ed in the Englifli tranflation of it, which, at his own defire, and 

 with the approbation of the Council of the Society, I had made, 

 it feemed to give great fatisfadion to claffical readers in gene- 

 ral. 



