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Solomon Ghorriezano, fon of the late French Conful. After 

 immenfe labour, he at laft difcovered the place where the re- 

 liques were depofited. When colle(5led, they filled a large cheft. 

 He delivered them to his employer M. Choiseul, who repaid 

 his trouble with thanks only : but he referred feveral fpeci- 

 mens, which he afterwards Ihewed and explained, when the 

 Count was no longer formidable. Of thefe a lift is given in the 

 letter ; fuch as, pieces of burnt bones ; pieces of a metal vafe ; 

 charcoal of vine branches ; a piece of mortar and ftone ; a piece 

 of metal of a triangular fliape ; pieces of very fine pottery, 

 well painted with wreaths of flowers of a dark olive colour, &c. 

 An account is then given of the ftrata of earth dug through. 

 Dr Dallaway, in the text, fays, that " extreme age, and the 

 " preflure of the ground, had crumbled into atoms of ruft all 

 " the metallic fubftances. The urn or vafe, M. Fauval, an 

 " ingenious artift, now refiding at Athens, received from M. 

 " Choiseul in its decayed form, and made a model from it, 

 " which has been exhibited to feveral conoifTetirs, as much to 

 " their furprife as fatisfadion." Dr Dallaway adds : " And 

 " the goddefs, with her chariot and four horfes, feems to prove that 

 " the Troad continues to be the land of invention." Yet it is 

 very remarkable that Mr Hawkins, who faw M. Fauval at 

 Athens, exprefsly fays, that this laft mentioned gentleman de- 

 nied the exiftence of an urn, but fpoke of a fmall bronze image 

 of Minerva, of which he fhewed them a caft. " At Athens," 

 fays Mr Hawkins in his fecond letter to Mr Liston, " we fell 

 ' in with M. Fauval, a very ingenious artift, long in the fer- 

 ' vice of M. DE Choiseul, who aflTured us, that M. Cheva- 

 ' lier's account of the goblet, difcovered in the tomb of Achil- 

 ' LEs, is perfecflly fabulous. It originated, it feems, from the 

 ' fragment of a fmall bronze figure, which, when he had clean- 

 ' fed, and put together, proved to be a very curious image of 

 Minerva. He fhewed us a caft which he had made of it in 



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