II. M. Chevalier' sTableav de la Plaine de Troye i/- 

 lujlrated and confirmed^ from the Observations offubfe- 

 quent Travellers, and others. By Andrew Dalzel, 

 M. A. F. R. S. Edin. Profejfor of Greeks and Secretary and 

 Librarian in the Univerftty of Edinburgh, 



[Read Sept. 4. 1797.] 



AS the Members of this Society afforded to M. Chevalier 

 an early and warm encouragement and patronage, and 

 readily gave his Tableau de la Plaine de Troye a place in their 

 Tranfacflions *, as well as admitted the author to a feat among 

 their number ; and as that paper, fince the time of its publica- 

 tion, has excited a good deal of intereft and fpeculation, they 

 will, no doubt, hear with pleafure, that it has now received, at 

 leaft in all its material circumftances, a moft ample and fatisfac- 

 tory confirmation. 



Th e author, previous to his departure from England, in May 

 1796, had expreffed an anxious defire that a fecond edition of 

 the Englifh verfion of his EfTay Ihould be publiihed, improved 

 from Ibme materials I had collecfled, and by fuch amendments 

 as he fhould communicate. But as this could not be done, 



without 



* See Vol. III. Lit.Cl. p. i,&c. 



