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observations of the Missionaries. La Guilletiere s 
" Account of y7//ie?2.9" had been edited by his bro- 
ther, Gnilkt ; and it is this Guillet who attacked 
iS/joTz, after the pubhcation of his work, md^critique 
entitled, " Letlres ecrites sur iine Dissertation dim 
Voyage de Grece Jmhlie par M. Spon, Mt'decin 
jlntiquaire ; avec des Remarques sur les Mtdailles, 
les Inscriptions, VHistoire ^ncienne et Moderne, 
la Geographic, la Chronologie, et une Carte des 
Detroits de Constantinople, selon les nouveiles Dc- 
couvertes de V ^ntiquaire i' a Paris, l()7P- \1mo. 
pp. 2S8, — In this critique, which is evidently 
the production of a writer of talents, and which 
abounds with the liveliest sallies of wit, its 
author refutes the objections made by Spon 
against the accuracy of La Guilletiere; and he 
adduces, with great force of raillery, several 
blunders which the former had committed, in 
history, in chronology, and in geography. 
During the same year, Spon published his an- 
swer to Guillet, with this title, " Rcp'ui.sc a la 
Critique puhliee par M. Guillet, sur le Voyage de 
Grece de Jacob Spon : avec Quatre Lettres sur le 
onesme sujet, le Journal d' Angleterre du Sieur 
Vernon, et la Liste des Erreurs commises par 
M. Guillet dans son jlthhnes ancienne et nouvelle." 
a Lyon, 1679. 1 2mo.' pp. 322. This controversy 
excited considerable sensation at the time; but 
