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natural to a clafTical mind, when engaged in furveying or de- 

 fcribing fuch plealing fcenes. 



In fome parts of M. Chevalier's map, alfo, he found fbme 

 inaccuracies, which he was enabled to recflify, both from his 

 own obfervation, and from another map with which he had 

 been furnifhed. This laft he expedted to be fent after him 

 from Conftantinople, and intended it Ihould contribute to the 

 improvement of M. Chevalier's in the new edition of the 

 ElTay*. Of all this I apprized M, Chevalier, in a letter diredl- 

 ed to him in London, which found him about to fet off for the 

 Continent. Previous to his departure, I received from him two 

 letters in anfwer ; extradls from which will be found in the Ap- 

 pendix f . 



But one of the chief inducements for bringing the fubje(5l 

 before the Society at this time, is the recent publication of a 

 very ingenious work, entitled, Conjiantinople, Ancient and Mo- 

 dern, with Excurfions to the Shores and IJlands of the Archipelago, 

 and to the Troad. By James D all away, M. B. F. S. A. late 

 Chaplain and Phyfician of the Britifh EmbaJJy to the Porte. This 

 learned author has been at great pains in afcertaining the topo- 

 graphy of the Troad ; and the refult of his inveftigations there 

 has produced the fulleft confirmation of all the material parts of 

 M. Chevalier's Effay, and a total but refpedful difTent on the 

 part of the author from Mr Bryant's fcepticifm on this fub- 

 je<5l. To this book, therefore, I Ihall, in the enfuing paper, have 

 frequent occasion to appeah 



ABSTRACT 



* This map I have never received, owing to fome omiflion which I cannot ex- 

 plain. In the mean time, this paper is accompanied with a fmall one, fomewhat 

 amended, chiefly from that given by Dr Dallaway, the author of the book pre- 

 fently to be mentioned. 



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