APPENDIX, No. V. jr; 



" This canal we can bear teflimony to. The errors of Wood 

 " feem to arlfe from the overlooking this circumflance. As for 

 " Strabo, he had neT\er vifited the fpot in all probability, and 

 " relied on the authority of Demetrius of Scepfis. 



*' At Athens wa fell in with Mr Fauval, a very ingenious 

 " artift, long in the fervice of M. de Choiseul, who afTuredus, 

 " that M. Chevalier's account of the goblet, difcovered in the 

 " tomb of Achilles, is pei-fecn:ly fabulous. It originated, it 

 " feems, from the fragments of a fmall bronze figure, which, 

 " when he had cleaned, and put together, proved to be a very 

 " curious image of Minerva. He fhewed us a caft which he 

 " had made of it in plafter of Paris. 



" This gentletnan fhewed us fome genuine Etrufcan vafes, 

 •' difcovered in tumuli he had opened in Attica. This will throw 

 '* new light on the hiftory of art. For my Own part, I confider 

 " the Etrufcan as nothing elfe than the early Greek flyle." 



1 HAVE copied more than I intended when I took Mr Haw- 

 kins's letter into my hand; but you will think probably that 

 the whole is interefling. Ever mofl truly and cordially yours, 



Robert Liston. 



No. VI. {;^6. S5, 5^» S7- ^2. 72.). 

 M. Chevalier to Mr Dalzel; 



MaNsiEUR et CHER Ami, Londres,. ce 1 1 Avril 1 796. 



J'ai re^u votre reponfe dii a, et j'ai ete enchante d'apprendre 

 que M. rAmbaffadelir Liston avoit prit la peine d'aller verifier 



lui- 



