ILLUSTRATED and CONFIRMED. ^s 



him than I am, the acute and ingenious Mr Wakefield*, and 

 a learned anonymous reviewer in the ^ritijh Critic ^. 



Mr. Liston being to return from his embafly at the Porte, 

 towards the conclufion of the year 1795, I was glad to find, by 

 a fhort letter, that he himfelf had made an excurfion to the 

 Troad ; and underftanding that a new edition of M. Cheva- 

 lier's EiTay was projecSled, he defired it might be deferred till 

 he fliould come home, as he had fome obfervations to commu- 

 nicate which would render the work more perfedl. When I 

 met with him at Edinburgh he was very much hurried, owing 

 to his being under the neceflity of fetting off foon for America, 

 as his Majefty's Plenipotentiary to the United States. .He never- 

 thelefs devoted a few hours to the revifal of M. Chevalier's 

 Eflay, whilfl I fat by him and took notes of his remarks. As 

 a great many of thefe confifted of fmall ^ alterations of various 

 parts of M. Chevalier's defcriptions, with a view to condenfe 

 them where they feemed too diffufe, and to corredl them where 

 they feemed inaccurate, it would be tedious at prefent to enter 

 into a particular detail. But, in the cafe of a new edition of the 

 Effay, I am perfuaded that they would be e^ttremely ufeful. 

 It may be fufficient, here in this Introdvidtion, to fay in gene- 

 ral, that Mr Liston confirmed, from his own infpedlion, all the 

 great points of M. Chevalier's refearches and difcoveries, af- 

 ter fpending many hours in walking over the ground. He faw 

 the fuppofed fite of Ancient Troy, the fources of the Scamander, 

 and the place where that river is now diverted into its new 

 channel. In fliort, I found that Mr Liston, along with a great 

 defire to render every thing as exadl and accurate as poffible, 

 had alfo caught that fort of intereft in the fubjedt, which is fo 



e 1 natural 



* See " A Letter to Jacob Bryant, Efq; concerning his Diflertation on the 

 '' War of Troy : by Gilbert Wakefield, B. A. Lend. 1797. 26 pp. 4to. 



+ For May and June 1797, vol, ix. 



