8o TABLEAU de laPLAlNE de TROYE. 



this publication my Memoir in a new drefs, in order, at leaft, to 

 remedy the errors it may have formerly occafioned. 



That the fources of the Scamander are ftill found near Boii- 

 nar-bajln ; — that of its juniflion with the Simois the ancient 

 channel ftill remains, as the ftream is now diverted into a canal, 

 which falls into the fea below* Sigeum ;— that the ftream which 

 comes down from the hills is the Simois, and not the Scaman- 

 der ; — and, alio, that the other ftream, which the former re- 

 ceives, is no Scamander ; — that Bounar-bajloi exhibits the fite and 

 veftiges of ancient Troy ; — that even the citadel is ftill diftin- 

 guifhed by its abrupt precipice : — all thefe are leading remarks 

 and obfervations which we owe to M. Chevalier. The coaft^ 

 the promontories, the tombs, the temple of Apollo at Thywbra, 

 Callicolone, and other places, receive from him all the diftindl- 

 nefs that readers of Homer can wifh. 



M. Chevalier villted the country about the year 1787. He 

 was at that time attached to the embaffy of M, de Choiseol 

 GouFFiER at Conftantinople. The occafion both of his draw- 

 ing up the paper, of its being read before the Royal Society of 

 Edinburgh, and afterwards publifhed by Mr Dalzel, are de- 

 tailed in the preface of this laft gentleman *. 



I HAD the pleafure of M. Chevalier's acquaintance during 

 his fliort refidence at Gdttingen. The perufal of parts of his tra- 

 velling journals made me defirous to communicate to my coun- 

 trymen the whole work. This propofal, however, was attended 

 with feveral difhculties, particularly, that the paper was the pro- 

 perty of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and that it was affign- 

 ed to a place in the third Volume of their Tranfa6lions^ which 

 was not to be publifhed for a twelvemonth. 



In the mean time, upon fignifying my wilhes, I experienced 

 a complaifance and readinefs to oblige, which calls for the 



warmeft 



• See the Preface to the Englifli Tranflation. 



