ILLUSTRATED and CONFIRMED. 37 



ABSTRACT of the mojl material Farts of M. Chevalier's 

 Effay, with the Confirmation of fubfequent Travellers. 



In giving a ftiort Abftra(5l of M. Chevalier's inveftigations, 

 I lliall not follow the order in which he himfelf proceeded, but 

 that which feems to convey the cleareft idea of his difcoveries 

 and obfervations, now that they have been made. For the cafe 

 is quite different with a perfon, who gives a detail of the man- 

 ner in which he himfelf advanced in the courfe of inveftigating 

 objecfls, of which he had at firfl but an imperfect notion, where 

 the diredl path leading to them was yet obfcure and unknown, 

 and where he had to form conje6lures that were fometimes er- 

 roneous ; and with one who points out or elucidates fuch ob- 

 jects after they have been difcovered, and their relative fituations 

 afcertained. 



After M. Chevalier had formed the refolution of explo- 

 ring the Afiatic coaft, where the Hellefpont unites with the 

 ^gean Sea, with a view to afcertain the true topography of the 

 Iliad, he happened to land firfl at Cape Baha^ the ancient pro- 

 montory of Ledos. Thence he proceeded to Alexandria Troas, 

 the ruins of which he examined, and has given an account of; 

 and this account Mr Liston in converfation, and Dr Dallawac? 

 in his book, (p. 326.), have agreed in confirming; but of which 

 a particular detail would be here unneceffary *. 



The 



* The Turkifli name Ejki Stamboul; the warm baths called Lidga Hamam ; the 

 hill on wbofe declivity thefe are fituated, and which is covered with tombs, whofe 

 farcophagi of white marble the Turks break down and make bullets of, for fupply- 



ing. 



