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(p. 338.), " It excites no wonder, that, after fo long poflefllon of 

 " it by the Turks, not a flone fliould remain ; yet fome con- 

 " tend againfl the exiftence of Troy, becaufe no veftiges were 

 " difcoverable when Alexander founded the fecond city, 

 " whilfl: they admit the latter fadl equally unaxithoiufed by pre- 

 " fent appearances *." 



In a paflage quoted from Herodotus, in which an account 

 is given of the march of Xerxes's army from Sardes to Aby- 

 dos, the expreflion — t^v llriv Je Xn^uv e; a^i^t^riv ^i§ct, is tranflated 

 advancing towards the left branch of Mount Ida, different from 

 the common way of rendering it, having Ida on the left. As this 

 interpretation is difapproved of both by Mr Heyne and Mr 

 Bryant, I have no inclination to difpute the point with fuch 

 learned antagoniils, provided they can make it appear, that 

 Xerxes could and did proceed, with Ida on his left. " Ida," 

 fays Mr Heyne, " has many branches and ridges. The army 

 " may have gone round one of thefe outlkirts of the mountain 

 " approaching towards the fea, in fuch a manner as to leave it 

 " on the left f." 



From M. Chevalier's letters, it appears that he was fen- 

 lible that he had at times introduced unneceflary or inaccurate 

 refledtions j of which kind are thofe in Chap. VI. refpedting 



travellers 



* See, in Mr Wakefield's Ittter to Mr Bryant, (p. 11, 12.)' ^ remarkable 

 fact refpefting the total difappearance of Flaxford Church, about five miles frona 

 Nottingham. 



f I OBSERVE, too, that this notion is fupported in a paper in the fixth volume 

 of Commentt. Soc. Reg. Sclent. Gotting. Ann. 1783, 1784 ; entitled, Hekodoti ac 

 Thocydidis Thracia, Jos. Christoph. Gattereri : with a map, where Xer- 

 xes's march is traced accordingly. Mr Bryant enters into a long difcuffion upon 

 the fubjecl, through which I have no inclinaiion to foUovi' him now, nor fliall I 

 afterwards, I fuppofe, when I come to take more particular notice of his Ohferva- 

 tions; but will freely confefs myfelf refponfible for the whole blame of this miftake, 

 having fuggefted the culpable interpretation to M. Chevalier, on my firft reading 

 his paper ; and I am anxious that he fhould here be cenfurcd only for paying fo 

 much deference to my judgment as to introduce an eq^uivalent expreflion into the 

 French original. 



