J 10 TABLEAU de la PLAINE de T'ROTE, 



No. IV. (p. 32.). 



The Reverend Dr Jackson, Dean of Chrijl Church, Oxford, to 

 Mr Dajszel *. 



I CANNOT permit myfelf to leave Oxford for the fummer, 

 without paying you my very fincere thanks for the obliging 

 manner in which you tranfmitted to xhq the prefent of M. Che- 

 valier's EfTay; and I beg yo\i, when you have an opportunity, 

 to prefent my acknowledgments to M. Chevalier himfelf : 

 accompanied, however, with a little reproach, for his having for- 

 gotten the promife he made me, of calling at Oxford whenever 

 he came to the fouth of England. 



I HAVE had a very particular pleafure from the perufal of the 

 work itfelf. No reader of Homer could poflibly be fatisfied 

 with the accounts we had before of the Troadj and Mr Wood's 

 book, in particular, was idle and childifli in the extreme. 



It was impofhble, alfo, for the reader of Homer to doubt of" 

 the fituation of Troy, and the adjacent country, as defcrlbed in 

 the Iliad ; and I had always, therefore, heard, from the few men 

 who underftood Homer, one and the fame language; — a lan- 

 guage which I thoroughly adopted^ that we were mifinformed and 

 miftaken as to the Scamander. And when I had the pleafure of 

 meeting a fet of friends, a few weeks ago, at Lord Stormont's 

 in London, I was not furprifed to find that we all agreed in the 



fame 



* At M. Chevalier's defire, Mr Dalzel fent a copy of the Eflay to the 

 learned and refpedable Dean of Chrift Church, (to whom M. Chevalier was 

 known), and received the above ahfwer. 



