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ABSTRACT of the mojl material Farts of M. Chevalier's 

 Effay, with the Confirmation of fubfequent Travellers. 



In giving a fhort Abftradl of M. Chevalier's inveftigations, 

 I fliall not follow the order in which he himfelf proceeded, but 

 that which feems to convey the cleareft idea of his difcoveries 

 and obfervations, now that they have been made. For the cafe 

 is quite different with a perfon, who gives a detail of the man- 

 ner in which he himfelf advanced in the courfe of inveftigating 

 obje(5ls, of which he had at firft but an imperfedl notion, where 

 the direct path leading to them was yet obfcure and unknown, 

 and where he had to form conjedlures that were fometimes er- 

 roneous ; and with one who points out or elucidates fuch ob- 

 jefts after they have been difcovered, and their relative fituations 

 afcertained. 



After M. Chevalier had formed the refolution of explo- 

 ring the Afiatic coaft, where the Hellefpont unites with the 

 iEgean Sea, with a view to afcertain the true topography of the 

 Iliad, he happened to land firft at Cape Baba, the ancient pro- 

 montory of Ledlos. Thence he proceeded to Alexandria Troas, 

 the ruins of which he examined, and has given an account of; 

 and this account Mr Liston in converfation, and Dr Dallaway 

 in his book, (p. 326.), have agreed in confirming ; but of which 

 a particular detail would be here unneceffary*. 



The 



* The Turkift name E/h Stamboul; the warm baths called Lidga Hamam ; the 

 hill on wbofe declivity thefe are fituated, and which is covered with tombs, whofe 

 farcophagi of white marble the Turks break down and make bullets of, for fupply- 



ing. 



