T,i TABLEAU de la PLAIN de TROY' 



It had been perufed alfo, before publication, by feveral gen- 

 tlemen of learning and tafte in this place, who had defired to fee 

 it; fome of whom exprefTed their fatisfaclion in converfation, 

 and others in writing : and, after publication, I received letters 

 from feveral eminent claflical fcholars in England, by whom 

 M, Chevalier's labours were highly approved of. Some of 

 thefe teftimonies I have happened to preferve*. 



But though M. Chevalier's refearches, thus given to the 

 public in Englilli and in German, and afterwards in the French 

 original in the third volume of the Tranfacflions of this So- 

 ciety, were received in the moft favourable manner by claflical 

 fcholars in general ; yet fome, who had long before acquiefced 

 in the account of the prefent appearance of this claflical region 

 given by the late Mr Wood, could not conceive how that inge- 

 nious obferver fhould have gone fo completely aftray on the 

 ground as had been alleged ; and were difpofed to think, that 

 an enthufiaftic admiration of Homer, common to M. Cheva- 

 lier with many perfons of fenfibility and tafte, might have 

 prefented to his fancy circumftances, and fcenes and appear- 

 ances, of which a cool and vmbiaflTed examiner might not have 

 •perceived the reality. 



Of the Communications of fubfequent Travellers, and of certain Ob- 

 jeSlions that have been made. 



I HAD reafon, therefore, to confider it as a fortunate clrcum- 

 ftance, that, towards the end of the year 1793, Mr Robert 

 LisTON, my own moft intimate friend ever fince a very early 



period 



* Ik a card from Mr Home, author of Douglas, &[.c. (who ftill takes great delight 

 in ftudying his favourite poet Homer, particularly the Odyffey), I find the follow- 

 ing expreflion : " I have read over your tranflation of M. Chevalier's Difcourfe, 

 " which is the moft fatisfaftory inveftigation and criticifm I ever read." See Ap- 

 per.dix, Nc. IV. 



