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fJBLEAUdela PLAIN E de TROrE. 



" Homer founded his famous poems was never carried on, and 

 *' that, if the city called Troy ever exifted, it muft have been in 

 " Egypt, and not in Phrygia ; — nay, that Homer himfelf, un- 

 " der the name of Ulysses, was the hero of his own OdyfTey," 

 are paradoxes, I fhould think, too whimfical, too violent, and too 

 repugnant to the beft authorities of antiquity, ever to admit of 

 any thing like a proof. 



On the other hand, that the fcene of the Iliad has derived 

 great light from the laudable refearches and fortunate difco- 

 veries of M. Chevalier muft be allowed; and therefore he de- 

 ferves the thanks of every admirer of the works of the great 

 poet. This is the decided opinion of many ; and particularly 

 of one, whom the world allows to be qualified in an eminent 

 degree to judge of this fubjedl, the learned and fagacious Pro- 

 feflbr Heyne ; to whofe Eflay on the Topography of the Iliad, 

 which is annexed in the Appendix *, I beg leave to dire(5l your 

 attention. 



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