ii6 TABLEAU ik la PIAINE de TROrE. 



Afecond Letter on the SubjeB of the Xroad, frm bU Excelk'Uy 

 Robert Lisbon, I<L. p. F. R. S. Edjn. His BriMmiic Ma- 

 jejlfs Awbqffldor at Cevfant'uiople^ tq Mr Pa^-zej^, Profeffor <^' 

 Creek in the Univerjity of EcUnlntr^h, 



My dear Friend, Conjlantinople^ April 2^. i79|! 



Your letter of the 28th of December reached me after a long 

 delay, occafioned by the interruption of the comniunioatipji 

 through Holland. 



It gives me pleafure to obferve, tl^at the circuTnftances I 

 tranfcribed for you, on the fubjecfl qf the Troad, appeared ipte- 

 relting. I have fince had ano^iher Jetter from Mr Hawkji^^, 

 which confirms flill more perfedlly the topography of Cheva- 

 lier, by removing the only difEculty that could poffibly caufe 

 hefitation ; a difficulty which had been propofed to rne in fo 

 pofitive a manner, as to make an impreffion on my mind, peep- 

 er (it feems) than it ought to have done. As I have fkot as vft 

 any near profpedl of vifiting the fpot myfelf, I ■will once niof^ 

 copy from Mr Hawkins. 



-' I AM extremely happy" (fays he), " that pur Gomm^n^c^tions 

 " refpedting the Troad proved fo fatisfadlory ; and I am ha,ppy 

 '' that it is in my power to remove the. only remaimng 4oubt 

 " exprefled in your letter, by affuring your Excellency, tha,t Te- 

 *' nedos is really to be feen from the hill of Troy; even the T^hole 

 " coaft of the illand is vifible from the northern to th? fouthei^n 

 ''- point. 



" The mod effential point, in fubftantiating the evidence of 

 " Chevalier, is that of the canal made to divert the waters of 

 " the Scamander from their original courfe towards the Simois. 



" This 



