30 TJBLEJU de la PLAINE de TROTE 



without a new arrangement with the bookfellers, and as an ob- 

 ftacle occurred which rendered a delay necelTary, I have thought 

 that it would, in the mean time, be agreeable to the Society to 

 have a Ihort Abftra(fl of the moft material contents of the Eflay, 

 as now confirmed by fubfequent travellers, laid before them, 

 preceded by an account of the manner of its firft reception, of 

 the communications of thofe travellers, and of certain objec- 

 tions that have been made to it ; and followed by an Appendix, 

 containing the papers and letters referred to in the foregoing 

 detail. 



Account of the Reception zvhich the Defer iption of the Plain ofT'roy 

 nt firji met with, 



M. Chevalier, after his return from the Eaft, and before he 

 came to Edinburgh, vifited Paris, where he found the late M^ 

 I'Abbe Barthelem Y, author of the Travels of the Toung Anachar- 

 fis^ to whom he gave fome account of his excurlions into the 

 Troad. That celebrated and refpedlable fcholar was fo much plea- 

 fefl with the light he received, on this occafion, concerning that 

 famous clafTical region, that he introduced M. Chevalier to a 

 party of his friends by the title of le Rejiaurateur de la Troade : 

 and it is probable that, if he had been favoured with M. Cheva- 

 lier's information previous to the publication of his great work, 

 he would have embelliflicd his book with a more fatis]^i<5lory de- 

 fcription of the Troad, than he found himfelf able to do from the 

 imperfetfl and inaccurate accounts formerly given of it. 



In the year 1792, when the Differtation in queftion, which 

 the author had read in French before this Society, was publifh- 

 ed in the Englifh tranllation of it, which, at his own defire, and 

 with the approbation of the Council of the Society, I had made, 

 it feemed to give great fatisfadion to clafTical readers in gene- 

 ral. 



