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" have brought him to agree with Homer," I cannot perceive 

 any very fevere cenfure in this: On the contrary, M. Cheva- 

 llER finds out, and adds a very good excufe for Pococke, v^hich 

 is, that he could not, at that time, have the aflillance of a geo- 

 metrical apparatus in his obfervations, as it was then hazardous 

 to produce any fuch to the view of the Turk^. On other occa- 

 fions, M. Chevalier pays compliments to Dr Pococke, calling 

 him, in one place, " that excellent traveller," infomuch, that he 

 appeared to me to have even over-rated his merit. In a note, 

 therefore, (p. loc), I have ventured to fay as much, in as far 

 as related to the art of compofition. For, on reading Po- 

 jcocKE*s travels, I certainly thought him very deficient in point 

 of arrangement, and very confufed in the communication of 

 his ideas. This, however, was exprefTed with all due defe- 

 rence to his veracity, which I believed to be quite unim- 

 peachable. But, if it will give any fatisfa<5lion to Mr Bry- 

 ant, I am ready to admit, that I may have been miftaken in 

 thinking Dr Pococke a confufed and inelegant writer. And 

 yet the late Mr Gibbon, whofe acutenefs nobody will deny, 

 when he pays a compliment to Dr Pococke's plan of the feven 

 hills of Conftantinople, adds, " that this traveller is feldom fo 

 " fatisfadory." 



As to the manner in which Mr Wood is treated, it will no 

 doubt feem very difrefpedlful in the eyes of thofe who are dif- 

 pofed to believe in his do<5lrine concerning the fource of the 

 Scamander; but to M. Chevalier this appeared fo palpably 

 untenable and abfurd, and he was fo confcious of his vi(5lory, 

 that he has, no doubt, purfued his triumph with a great deal of 

 vivacity and pleafantry. Where Mr Wood appeared to have 

 merit, it has been allowed him ; but becaufe he viewed the 

 Troad erroneoufly, Mr Bryant thinks it inconfiftent to admit 

 that his defcription of the coaft is exadj and fmartly fays, (with 



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