10 rJBLEAU de la PLAINE de T'ROTE, 



No. IV. (p. 3a.)» 



The Reverend Dr Jackson, Dean of Chrijl Churchy Oxford, to 

 Mr DAjiZEL*. 



1 CANNOT permit myfelf to leave Oxford for the fummer, 

 without paying you my very fincere thanks for the obliging 

 manner in which you tranfmitted to me the prefent of M. Che- 

 valier's ElTayj and I beg you, v^'hen you have an opportunity, 

 to prefent my acknowledgments to M. Chevalier himfelf: 

 accompanied, however, with a little reproach, for his having for- 

 gotten the promlfe he made me, of calling at Oxford whenever 

 he came to the fouth of England. 



I HAVE had a very particular pleafure from the perufal of the 

 work itfelf. No reader of Homer could poflibly be fatisfied 

 with the accounts we had before of the Troad; and Mr Wood's 

 book, in particular, was idle and childilh in the extreme. 



It was impolTible, alfo, for the reader of Homer to doubt of 

 the fituation of Troy, and the adjacent country, as defcribed in 

 the Iliad ; and I had always, therefore, heard, from the few rhen 

 who underftood Homer, one and the fame language;— a lan- 

 guage which I thoroughly adopted, that we were milinformed and 

 miftaken as to the Scamander* And when I had the pleafure of 

 meeting a fet of friends, a few weeks ago, at Lord Stormont's 

 in London, I was not furprifed to find that we all agreed in the, 



fame 



* At M. Chevalier's defire, Mr Dalzel fent a copy of the EfTay to the 

 learned and refpeftable Dean of Chrift Church, (to whom M. Chevalier was 

 known), and received the above ahfwer. 



