APPENDIX, No. I. 8i. 



Waniieft and mofl grateful acknowledgment on my part. Not 

 only M. Chevalier gave me every affiftance, but, on the part 

 of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, I was anticipated with affu- 

 rances which fhew the liberal fentiments of thofe Literati^ who 

 are far fuperior to any little felfilh vanity. I had even imme- 

 diate accefs to a tranflation of the Paper before it had ap- 

 peared in the Society's T'ranfadtions. A copy of this tranflation 

 was fent to me before its pubHcation, and the earlieft impref- 

 fions of the maps were communicated to me. If ever the occu- 

 pations of learned men merited the title of the ftudies of huma- 

 nity, it was in the prefent inftance. To the exertions of Pro- 

 feffor Dalzel, I am particularly Indebted. He preferved, on 

 this occafion, his chara(5ter, already high in my eftimation, by 

 fhewing himfelf In no ways adluated by envy, or by any little 

 jealoufy, towards a profefTor In his own line. 



I COMMITTED the German tranflation to a young promifing 

 fcholar, Mr Charles Frederic Dornedden. According to the 

 permiflion which I received from Edinburgh, and from the au- 

 thor, I have added fome remarks, which are chiefly critical, or 

 relate to the interpretation, particularly of Strabo, or refer to a 

 comparifon of paflTages in Homer. On diff^erent points I have 

 received from the author written explanations, and have, by his 

 permlflion, made fome changes and additions. The particular 

 ftate of literature In Germany would perhaps have required 

 other changes, omifllons, and abbreviations ; but the work was 

 not my property. 



The author fets out always from tombs, and feems to lay the 

 greatefl; fl:refs on the obfervations he has made refpe^ling thefe. 

 There may have been particular reafons for this. For us they 

 decide little. Suppofing that M. Chevalier was mlfl:aken, and 

 that the eminences were not at all tombs, the main point re- 

 mains what it was ; the fources of the Scamander are near Bou- 

 nar-bapi j and in that neighbourhood is the fite of Troy. 



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