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this publication my Memoir in a new drefs, in order, at leaft, to 

 remedy the errors it may have formerly occafioned. 



That the fources of the Scamander are flill found near Bou- 

 nar-hajhi ; — that of its jundlion with the Simois the ancient 

 channel flill remains, as the ftream is now diverted into a canal, 

 which falls into the fea below Sigeum ;— that the ftream which 

 comes down from the hills is the Simois, and not the Scaman- 

 der ; — and, alfo, that the other ftream, which the former re- 

 ceives, is no Scamander ; — that Bounar-bapi exhibits the fite and 

 veftiges of ancient Troy ; — that even the citadel is ftill diftin- 

 guiflied by its abrupt precipice : — all thefe are leading remarks 

 and obfervations which we owe to M. Chevalier. The coaft^ 

 the promontories, the tombs, the temple of Apollo at thymbra^ 

 Callicolone^ and other places, receive from him all the diftin^l- 

 nefs that readers of Homer can wifli. 



M. Chevalier vifited the country about the year 1787. He 

 was at that time attached to the embafTy of M. de Choiseul 

 GouFFiER at Conftantinople. The occafion both of his draw- 

 ing up the paper, of its being read before the Royal Society of 

 Edinburgh, and afterwards publiftied by Mr Dalzel, are de- 

 tailed in the preface of this laft gentleman *. 



I had the pleafure of M. Chevalier's acquaintance during 

 his fhort refidence at Gbttingen. The perufal of parts of his tra- 

 velling journals made me defirous to communicate to my coun- 

 trymen the whole work. This propofal, however, was attended 

 with feveral difficulties, particularly, that the paper was the pro- 

 perty of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and that it was afTign- 

 ed to a place in the third Volume of their 7>rt/{/^^io/?j, which 

 was not to be publifhed for a twelvemonth. 



In the mean time, upon fignifying my wifhes, I experienced 

 a complaifance and readinefs to oblige, which calls for the 



warmeft 



* See the Preface to the Englifh TraDflation. 



