ILLUSTRATED and CONFIRMED. sj 



jecflures, however, he was, after a converfation with Profeffor 

 Heyne, convinced he was miftaken; and readily admitted, that 

 his whole XVlth chapter, which is upon this fubjedl, is good 

 for nothing*. After that converfation, alfo, he was difpofed to 

 think that this barrow might probably be that mentioned by 

 Homer, (Iliad, VII. 337.), which was to be deftined as a com- 

 mon one for the warriors who had fallen in battle ; ax^irov h 



situation of the Grecian Camp. 



Chapter XIII, where tiae author treats of the fituation of the 

 Grecian camp, now appears to me to require much amend- 

 ment. That the camp was fituated fomewhere betwixt the Si- 

 gean and Rhoetean promontories is generally agreed ; but that 

 it occupied the whole fpace or line of coaft in that interval, as 

 M. Chevalier has fuppofed, cannot be admitted. This would 

 have made it necelTary for the camp, which confifted of the 

 tents, with the fhips drawn out upon the dry land, as was the 

 ancient cuftom, to occupy the place on both fides of the mouth 

 of the Simois, which M. Chevalier, and the other travellers, 

 as well as Strabo, defcribe as being an extenfive marfli. M. 

 Chevalier was evidently aware of this inconvenience ; and 

 therefore fuppofes that the Greeks, in the courfe of the war, 

 frequently fhifted their ftation ; and that, at laft, in the tenth 

 year, during the fummer feafon, they encamped, in full force, 

 at the mouth of the Scamander, or Simois, for, at the mouth, 

 they were united. 



I regret that, in the note, I have endeavoured to fupport 

 this idea, by fuppofing, that " the Scamander, even in the fum- 



VoL. IV. h " mer, 



* See his Letters, Appendix, No. VI. 



