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" mer, when the Simois was dry, continued to convey its pure 

 *' and perennial, though lefs copious, ftream through the midfl: 

 '' of the camp, in the fame channel through which the Simois, 

 " after having joined it, difcharged its winter torrents." (p. 104.). 

 Ever fince I read Mr Heyne's Efl'ay, I have given up this hy- 

 pothefis, and willingly accede to his idea, which fuppofes, that 

 the camp only ftretched on both fides towards the promontories 

 Rhoeteum and Sigeuin ; and that on the north-eaft it extended no 

 farther than the Simois *. In this way the whole is rendered 

 clear, and free from every objedlion. This, however, makes 

 nothing againft M. Chevalier, but that he was not fo fortu- 

 nate in his hypothefis as Mr Heyne, on this occafion, which I 

 am fure he himfelf would have been the fir ft to admit. 



Mr Heyne's notion of the fituation of the camp is confirm- 

 ed by Dr Dallaway ; and the more ftrongly, as the latter does 

 not appear to have feen the former's EfTay on the Topography 

 of the Iliad, or to have known any thing of the coincidence of 

 Mr Heyne's opinion with his own. In a very diftindl note on 

 this fubje(5t, (p. 336.), he obferves, that " between thefe pro- 

 " montories the Grecian fleet was drawn up on dry ground, 

 " and probably remained fo during the whole war." And he 

 concludes the note thus : " The purfuit of the Trojans by 

 " Achilles, fixes the fituation of the Grecian camp between 

 " the confluence of the rivers and Sigeum, for they retreated 

 " over the Scamander to gain Troy, and he kills many of them 

 *' in the river." 



Of fome other Mijfakes, and erroneous Criticifms. 



The author, in fpeaking of the two tunmli near the Sigean 

 promontory, (Ch. IV. XXI.), fays, that " he was in'xirmed by 

 " a Greek inhabitant of the place, that the name given to the 



" more 



* See Appendix, No. III. 



