ILLUSTRATED and CONFIRMED. 6i 



travellers of high diftuidlion, and the priefls in the early ages of 

 Chriftianity : both of which he defires may be flriick out in a 

 new edition. The former, 1 obferve, has already been omitted 

 in the German tranflation ; and the latter, which begins thus : 

 " But why did not the priefhs of the lower empire demolifh 

 "^thofe monuments ?" — has given great offence to, and has been 

 cenfured and reprobated with uncommon afperity by, Mr 

 Bryant, in his Ohjervations. (p. 42. 43. )• 



Of the Notice that has been taken of Strabo. 



In giving a defcription of the Troad, it was neceffary to ad- 

 vert particularly to what a geographer fo refpecftable as Strabo 

 has faid upon that fubjedt. This M. Chevalier has done in 

 his Vllth and Vlllth chapters. Strabo derived the greateft 

 part of his information, relating to the Troad, from Deme- 

 trius of Scepfis, who, though he had his refidence in thofe 

 parts, was evidently deceived refpe(5^ing the true fource of the 

 Scamander, and has led Strabo into the fame error. They 

 fuppofe that this river takes its rife in Mount Cotylus, far be- 

 yond the place where ancient Troy was fituated. M. Cheva- 

 lier has fliewn this to be a grofs miftake ; and it is evident that 

 it was likewafe the chief caufe of Mr Wood's errors. Strabo 

 faw and frankly admitted the difficulty of reconciling this with 

 Homer's account in the XXIId book of the Iliad, where the 

 two fources are explicitly mentioned, the one a hot and the 

 other a cold fpring, and both as being in the vicinity of the. 

 Scaean Gate; but Strabo has not been fviccefsful in his attempt 

 to obviate tliis difficulty *. 



M. 



* Mr Heyne, in a note on the German verfion, (p. 85.), as well as in the pre- 

 face to the fame work, (See App. No. 1.), thinks it evident that Demetrius fet 

 out on a wrong hjpothelis, in confequence of mifunderftanding a paflage of the Iliadp, 

 (XII, 19.). This paflage I had quoted and explained in a note. (p. 59. of the Engr 

 liih Tranflation.). 



