APPENDIX^ containing Papers and Letters referred 

 to in the foregoing Detail. 



No. I. (p. 31.). 



From Profeffor Meyne's Preface to the German Tranjlation of M. 

 Chevalier's Treatife*. 



TO penetrate, at leaft with the mind's eye, beyond the nar- 

 row circle to which Ufe is bounded, and to ftudy na^ 

 ture on a large fcale, is a propenfity in the conftitution of man. 

 From this principle arifes the pleafure which we receive from 

 the defcription of foreign lands, and in the reprefentation of na- 

 tural fcenes and profpeds. In the cafe of celebrated places, this 

 pleafure is enhanced, when, in countries well known to fame, 

 the remembrance of illuflrious adlions is before us. The inte- 

 reft rifes ftill higher, if the fpot be what is termed claflic ground, 

 the mention of which in ancient authors is connedled with im- 

 portant events ; or where the topography is doubtful, and has 

 become a fubjeifl of controverfy. 



This is the cafe with the Troad. Homer furnilhes us •wdth 

 fo much accurate obfervation, that we are ready to imagine our- 



k 2 felves 



* I AM indebted for the tranflation of the following Extra£b, from the German 

 of Mr Heyne's Preface and Notes, and of the Eflay on the Topography of the Iliad^ 

 to a very ingenious young gentleman, now the Reverend Alexander Brunton, 

 minifter of Bolton in Eaft Lothian ; formerly educated at this Univerfity, and who 

 refided fome time at Berlin, as private fecretary to the late JoSETH Ewart, Ef<Jj 

 Britifli minifter at that court. My learned friend, Mr James Bokar of the Excife> 

 took the trouble of revifing and preparing it for the prefs. D. 



