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*' is fufcepdble. But I will venture to aflure you before hand, 

 " that the alterations which may be made will not extend to the 

 " monuments eflential to the underflanding of the Iliad ; fuch 

 " as the fitc of ancient Troy, the fources of the Scamander, 

 " the tombs of the warriors, the promontories, &c. All thefe 



points arc fixed relatively to one another, with a degree of 

 " precifion fufficient to prevent any change that may be made 

 *' upon them from materially afiedling my work. As to mo- 

 " dern monuments, fuch as Alexandria Troas, &c. I own that I 

 " did not think it nccelTary to pay fuch a fcrupulous attention 

 " to them. The line of the coafl: was done with the greatefl 

 " exattnefs, as well as the mouth of the Hellefpont and the 

 " ifland of Tenedos ; and therefore I fufpecft that vipon this the 

 " new map will make no alteration*." 



Dr Dallaway obferves, that M. Chevalier has defcribed 

 the artifical canal in his map of the Troad as having much too 

 ftraight a dire<5lion. It is conducted rovmd the hill upon which 

 the CbiftUk of Hassan Pallia is built, (p. 347.). 



The Monument of Ilus. 



About an hundred paces up the Simois, from the place whei-e 

 it is joined by the old bed of the Scamander, and near the place 

 where the city called Nezv Ilium is fuppofed to have been fitua- 

 ted, M. Chevalier had obferved the ruins of a bridge, which 

 had been built of hewn ftone, and of exquifite workmanihip. 

 Fronting thefe remains, on the right of the river, he faw a fort 

 of riling ground, which he took to be a demoliflied barrow. 

 This he afterwards fancied to be the monument of Ilus, and 

 probably the fame with Homer's ^^airf/,og -ridioio. In thefe con- 

 jectures, 



* See Appendix, No. VI. 



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