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*' is fufceptible. But I will venture to affure you before hand, 

 " that the alterations which may be made will not extend to the 

 " monuments effential to the underftanding of the Iliad ; fuch 

 " as the fite of ancient Troy, the fources of the Scamander, 

 *' the tombs of the warriors, the promontories, &c. All thefe 

 " points are fixed relatively to one another, with a degree of 

 " precifion fufficient to prevent any change that may be made 

 *' upon them from materially affedling my work. As to mo- 

 " dern monuments, fuch as Alexandria Troas, &c. I own that I 

 " did not think it neceffary to pay fuch a fcrupulous attention 

 " to them. The line of the coaft was done with the greateft 

 " exatlnefs, as well as the mouth of the Hellefpont and the 

 " ifland of Tenedos ; and therefore I fufpedl that upon this the 

 " new map will make no alteration*." 



Dr Dallaway obferves, that M. Chevalier has defcribed 

 the artifical canal in his map of the Troad as having much too 

 ftraight a direcftion. It is conducted round the hill upon which 

 the CbiftUk of Hassan Paflia is built, (p. 347.)' 



The Monument of Ilus. 



i\BOUT an hundred paces up the Simois, from the place where 

 it is joined by the old bed of the Scamander, and near the place 

 where the city called Nezv Ilium is fuppofed to have been fitua- 

 ted, M. Chevalier had obferved the ruins of a bridge, which 

 had been built of hewn ftone, and of exquifite workmanfhip. 

 Fronting thefe remains, on the right of the river, he faw a fort 

 of riling ground, which he took to be a demoliflied barrow. 

 This he afterwards fancied to be the monument of Ilus, and 

 probably the fame with Homer's '^^ua-^og Tndioio. In thefe con- 



jedures, 



* See Appendix, No. Vf. 



