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Mr Bryant afterwards, (p. 14.), argues from a paffage of Ho- 

 mer, (Iliad, XX. 216.), — STg} 4rV&; IXiog I^t; Ev Tg^/oi ^stoX/^-o, — that 

 Troy muft have been fituated in the plain, much nearer the 

 Ihips than M. Chevalier imagines. To this Dr Dallaway 

 alfo gives the following fatisfa6lory anfwer : " The moft eleva- 

 " ted ground on the edge of a precipice was the Acropolis, other- 

 ** wife called Pergamus, (Iliad, IV. 507. V. 460. and XXIV. 

 " 700.). Ilion was lofty enough to be called windy, (pojjim), yet 

 " it was lower than Pergamus, (XXIV. 700.) ; fo that it is once 

 " faid to be in the plain, \v •kzI'iu^ (XX. 216.), as Handing at the 

 " head of the plain on an eafier acclivity, and being lower than 

 " the mountains of Ida. It is, notwithftanding, incontrovertible, 

 " that Troy flood on the afcent, (VI. 74. XXIV. 390.) ; and the 

 " l^inog, which was without the town, has the fame epithet zvin- 

 " dy, (XXII. 145.), from its unfheltered fituation. The wall ex- 

 " tended only in the front of the plain, the natural fortification 

 " of cliffs above the Simois rendering its continuance unnecef- 

 ** fary. Mr Bryant lays much ftrefs on the exprefhon h ttsJ/^, 

 " which might have been ufed comparatively, and in contradi- 

 *' flindlion to higher acclivities, and not pofitively." (p. 349.)* 



What Mr Bryant fays of the diflance between the promon- 

 tories, the fituation of the Grecian camp, and of the ^^cocfji^og ti- 

 y(0(o; (p. 4. to p. 13.) ; alfo his criticifms relating to Strabo, 

 and upon a paffage of Herodotus, (p. 15. — 28.), do not here 

 require a particular anfwer or difcuffion, after the concefTions 

 already made, and the amendments which have been propofed. 

 In the cafe of a new edition of M. Chevalier's Treatife^ it is 

 admitted that feveral of Mr Bryant's remarks might furnifh 

 afliftance in the correcflion of fome errors and inaccuracies, and 

 would merit a tribute of praife to the learned author's acute- 

 nefs ; but they can have no effedl in fubverting the great and 

 efTential articles of M. Chevalier's inveftigations and difcove- 

 ries. 



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