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what reafon I leave others to judge), " a man fo erroneous, and 

 " fo exadl, was never before feen." 



Dr Chandler, m one paffage, is blamed for giving his rea- 

 ders too much credit ; but a good reafon for this is afligried in- 

 the note. In another place, he is noted as having once inadver- 

 tently fpoken of the rivers, repugnantly to his own right notion 

 of them. I have not had time to examine what foundation M. 

 Chevalier had for this remark. Perhaps it might as well have 

 been fpared. I find it is omitted in the German edition : very 

 probably at the author's own defire. Of Dr Chandler, M. 

 Chevalier fpeaks elfewhere with the greateft deference and re- 

 fpe(5l; and I queftion, if Dr Chandler will thank Mr Bryant 

 for coming forward as his champion, where he had not himfelf 

 obferved any antagonift on the field. 



It is furprifing that Mr Bryant, in his zeal for the reputa- 

 tion of Strabo, did not perceive that he himfelf is as guilty of 

 reje<5ling the teftimony of that admired geographer as M. Che- 

 valier, when it happens to difagree with his own ideas. An 

 inftance of which we find in his Differtation. (p. 44.). " Of 

 " Troy," fays he, " there is no fign : no remainder : nor was 

 " there ever any upon record." — " Strabo endeavours to give a 

 " reafon for this : but I believe that it will not be deemed fatls- 

 " fadlory." And fo he produces the paflage which we had occa- 

 fion to quote above, (p. 59.). 



Mr Bryant employs the firfl three pages immediately fuc- 

 ceeding his introducflion, in endeavouring to prove that the city 

 of Troy, as defcribed by Homer, muft have been much nearer 

 the fea than the fituation afligned to it by M. Chevalier, which 

 is afferted to be contrary to the very evidence of the poet him- 

 felf. 



I A M glad I have it in my power to give a very fhort, and, I 

 think, a very fatisfa<5lory anfwer to this objedlion ; and I feel 

 the more fo, becaufe Mr Bryant's arguments have, in this par- 

 ticular. 



