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what reafon I leave others to judge), " a mail fo erroneous, and 

 " fo exadl, was never before feen.'' 



Dr Chandler, in one paifage, is blamed for giving his rea- 

 ders too much credit ; but a good reafon for this is affigned in- 

 the note. In another place, he is noted as having once inadver- 

 tently fpoken of the rivers, repugnantly to his own right notion 

 of them. I have not had time to examine what foundation M. 

 Chevalier had for this remark. Perhaps it might as well have 

 been fpared. I find it is omitted in the German edition : very 

 probably at the author's own defire. Of Dr Chandler, M. 

 Chevalier fpeaks elfewhere with the greateft deference and re*- 

 fpedl; and I queftion, if Dr Chandler will thank Mr Bryant 

 for coming forward as his champion, where he had not himfelf 

 obferved any antagonift on the field. 



It is furprifing that Mr Bryant, in his zeal for the reputa- 

 tion of Strabo, did not perceive that he himfelf is as guilty of 

 reje<5ling the teflimony of that admired geographer as M. Che- 

 valier, when it happens to difagree with his own ideas. An 

 inflance of which we find in his Dijfertation. (p. 44.). " Of 

 " Troy," fays he, " there is no fign : no remainder : nor was 

 " there ever any upon record," — " Strabo endeavours to give a 

 " reafon for this : but I believe that it will not be deemed fatis- 

 " fadlory." And fo he produces the paffage which w^e had occa- 

 fion to quote above, (p. 59.). 



Mr Bryant employs the firft three pages immediately fuc- 

 ceeding his introdudlion, in endeavouring to prove that the city 

 of Troy, as defcribed by Homer, muft have been much nearer 

 the fea than the fituation afligned to it by M. Chevalier, which 

 is afTerted to be contrary to the very evidence of the poet him- 

 felf 



I AM glad I have it in my power to give a very fhort, and, I 

 think, a very fatisfadlory anfwer to this objedlion ; and I feel 

 the more fo, becaufe Mr Bryant's arguments have, in this par- 



ticular;^ 



