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Afdcond Letier on tie SubjeB of the fro^d, from hU ExccHfiify 

 Robert Liston, LL. P. F. ^' S. Edjn. His Britannic Mq- 

 je/lfs Ambajfador at CQiiJlantinople, tq Mr Pa;.ze;., Profeffor qf 

 Greek in the Univerfity of Eclifii?i{r^b, 



My dear Friend, Conjlantinople^ April 2(j. 179^- 



Your letter of the 28th of December reached me after a long 

 delay, occafioned by the interruptipn of the communioatip}! 

 through Holland. 



It gives me pleafure to obferve, tl>at the circuvnllaqces I 

 transcribed for you, on the fubje(5l of the Troad, appeared inte- 

 relling. I have fince had another letter from Mr Hawk|n^, 

 which confirms flill more perfe(flly the topography of Cheva- 

 lier, by removing the only difficulty that could poffibly cauf^ 

 hefitation ; a difficulty which had been propofed to rne ip fo 

 pofitive a inanner, as to make an impreflion on my mind, peep- 

 er (it feems) than it ought to have done. As I have not as yet 

 any near profpecSl of vifiting the fpot myfelf, I will once nxox^ 

 copy from Mr Hawkins. 



" I AM extremely happy" (fays he) " that our Gomrnu^piic^tions 

 " refpedling the Troad proved fo fatisfa<5lory n and I am ha,ppy 

 '• that it is in my power to remove the only remainii:^^ d,oubt 

 " exprefled in your letter, by afluring your Excellency, tha,t Te- 

 " nedos is really to be feen from the hill of Troy; even the -yvrhole 

 " coaft of the illand is vifible from the northern to th,^: fouthern, 

 '^* point. 



" The mofl efiTential point, in fubftantiating the evidence of 

 " Chevalier, is that of the canal made to divert the waters of 

 " the Scamander from their original courfe towards the Simois. 



" This 



