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Nor will I enter any further into what is objedled to the ac- 

 count of the Scamander, taken from the diminutive fize of the 

 river ; enough having been already faid upon that fubjeft to 

 convince any unprejudiced perfon that the ftream, which has 

 its fources at Bounar-bajhi^ and which has been explored and 

 defcribed by other refpedlable travellers, as well as M. Cheva- 

 lier, anfwers perfectly to all the defcriptions and hints to be 

 found in the Iliad ; allowance being always to be made for the 

 poetic way of reprefenting fuch things *. Enough too has been 

 already faid concerning the tombs. 



The paffage in the defcription, where M. Chevalier has 

 expofed himfelf moft to the power of Mr Bryant, is contain- 

 ed in two paragraphs in the Vlth chapter, where Clemens 

 Alexandrians is referred to, and where the priefts of the low- 

 er empire are mentioned. The obfervations there made are evi- 

 dently ill digefted, and raflily thrown out. This the author 

 has frankly admitted, by diredling them to be totally rejedled 

 in the cafe of his book's being reprinted f . But ftill this does 

 not in the leaft affedl the material parts of the Treatifei and fuch 

 diminutive or partial vidlories as this will fcarcely entitle Mr 

 Bryant to the honour of an ovation, far lefs to the glory of a 

 triumph. 



Mr Bryant, I find, willingly allows the author and the edi- 

 tor fome praife for exploding the idle notion of Hector's flight 

 three times round the city of Troy ; and fupports them in their 

 endeavour to fhow the abfurdity of fuch a fuppofition. At firft 

 I was afraid there might be fome fort of decoy in this, fome 

 contrivance, like that of the wooden horfe, for deftroying us ; 

 efpecially as this was a quarter ( — 'iv^u fji.u.Xiffa, A;ti/S«roV es"' ^oX/s, 

 Ka.1 iTTih^.o^M ivr^.tro r'ny^og — ) where I never had felt very bold, 

 having ftill had my doubts about the poet's acceptation of trsf/. 



But 



• See Mr Heyne's Preface, Appendix, No. I, 



■^ Sep Appendix, No. VI, 



