viii ADVERTISEMENT TO PRESENT EDITION. 
of the Cariatides, as Guillet maintained that it 
was'. Here he musters all his erudition, and 
quite overwhelms his antagonist ; and had the 
author of the present work been aware of the 
powerful authority upon which this point rested, 
when he published his ** Testimonies concerniui^ 
the Statue of Ceres,'' he would never have ven- 
tured to undertake the discussion. It is, how- 
ever, highly satisfactory to him to find, after so 
many years have elapsed since he ushered his 
little treatise before the public, that all he has 
said upon the subject is supported by the supe- 
rior judgment of so great a scholar ; with whose 
judgment the opinions of posterity will here- 
after probably coincide. 
(1) " J'ay quelque chose a debiter de plus curieux touchaiit la 
rf^flexion d'architecture que fait M. Guillet sur une statue de Ceres que 
j'ay decrite et que je doune en taille-douce, lorsque je parle des 
mazures d'Eleusis. A I'entetidre parler, j'y ay comniis une efFroyable 
faute, ayant pris pour une statue ce qui est une Cariatide. Voyons si 
ce nouvenu Vitruve ne se trompe point luy-mcsme, et si j'en duis 
moins croire a mes 3 oui qu'fl ses raisonnemens." Ripoitse h la Cri- 
tique du P'oyage de Grecef p. 137. « Lyon, 1679. 
Cambridge, 
September 2, 1816. 
