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" plafter of Paris * " According to M, Chevalier, then, there 

 were both an tirn and a figure of Minerva ; according to Dr 

 Dallaway an urn, but no figure or ftatue ; and according to 

 Mr Hawkins a fmall ftatue, but no goblet or urn. It fhould 

 feem, therefore, that this aflFair ftill ftands in need of further 

 elucidation f . 



But whatever may be thought of thefe barrows ; " fuppo- 

 " fing," fays Mr Heyne, " that M. Chevalier was miftaken, 

 " and that the eminences were not at all tombs, the main point 

 " remains what it was. The fources of the Scamander are near 

 " Bounar-bajhi, and in that neighbourhood is the fite of Troy|." 



Of the ObjeBions made by Mr Bryant. 



Mr Bryant, whofe name has been long fo well known in 

 the learned world, has, in the warfare he has thought fit to wage 

 with M. Chevalier, been, no doubt, pretty fuccefsful in feve- 

 ral aflaults, where the latter has laid himfelf fomewhat open ; 

 (as we have admitted to be fometimes the cafe) ; but he has to- 

 tally failed in obtaining any thing like a decifive vidory. 



This learned gentleman having, thirty years ago, embraced 

 an opinion, not a new one indeed, but, I believe, almoft general- 

 ly efteemed very extravagant and paradoxical, that no Trojan 

 war, fuch as forms the foundation of the poems of BLomer, was 



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* Appendix, No, V. 



+ In the above-mentioned letter, quoted by Dr Dallaway, an inftance of a 

 very ftrange pitch of arrogance is recorded. It is there faid, that « when the bar- 

 " rows were clofed up, Count Choiseul caufed a ftieet of lead to be placed on the 

 " bottom, infcribed, Ouwage fait par le Comte de Choiseul Gouffier, I'an 1787, 



X Conclusion of his preface to the German verfion. See Appendix, No. I. 



