APPENDIX^ containing Papers and Letters referred 

 to in the foregoing Detail, 



No. I. (p. 3i.)» 



From Profeffor Heyne's Preface to the German Trafijlation of. M* 

 Chevalier's 'treatife^, 



TO penetrate, at leaft with the mind's eye* beyond the nar- 

 row circle to which hfe is bounded, and to ftudy na^ 

 ture on a large fcale, is a propenfity in the conftitution of man. 

 From this principle arifes the pleafure which we receive from, 

 the defcription of foreign lands, and in the reprefentation of na- 

 tural fcenes and profpedls. In the cafe of celebrated places, this 

 pleafure is enhanced, when, in countries well known to fame, 

 the remembrance of illuftrious adlions is before us. The inte- 

 refl rifes ftill higher, if the fpot be what is termed claffic ground, 

 the mention of which in ancient authors is connecfted with im- 

 portant events j or where the topography is doubtful, and has 

 become a fubjedl of controverfy. 



This is the cafe with the Troad. Homer furnifhes us with 

 fo much accurate obfervation, that we are ready to imagine our-^ 



i 2 felves 



* I AM indebted for the tranflation of the following Extra£b, from the German 

 of Mr Heyne's Preface and Notes, and of the Effaj on the Topography of the Iliadj 

 to a very ingenious young gentleman, now the Reverend Alexander Brunton, 

 minifter of Bolton in Eaft Lothian ; formerly educated at this Uhiverfity, and who 

 i-efided fome time at Berlin, as private fecretary to the late Joseph Ewart, Efqj 

 Britifli minifter at that court. My learned friend, Mr James Bonab. of the Excife, 

 took the trouble of revifing and preparing it for the prefs. D. 



