OR HISTORY OF LITERATURE, DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN, ON AN ENLARGED PLAN. CONTAINING STOR: LIBRARI NEW-YORE SCIENTIFIC ABSTRACTS OF IMPORTANT AND INTERESTING WORKS A GENERAL ACCOUNT OF SUCH AS ARE OF LESS CONSE. AND NOTICES, OR REVIEWS, OF VALUABLE FOREIGN BOOKS; ALSO THE LITERARY INTELLIGENCE OF EUROPE, &c. "At hæc omnia ita tractari præcipimus, ut non, Criticorum more, in laude et VOL. XVII. FROM SEPTEMBER TO DECEMBER INCLUSIVE, 1793. LONDON: PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, N°. 72, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD. M DCC XCIV. THE ANALYTICAL REVIEW, For SEPTEMBER, 1793 CLASSICAL LITERATURE. ART. 1. Defcription of the Plain of Troy with a Map of the Region, delineated from an actual Survey. Read in French before the'. Royal Society of Edinburgh, Feb. 21. and 28. and March 21. 1791. by the Author, M. Chevalier, Fellow of that Society, and of the Academies of Metz, Caffel and Rome. Tranflated from the Original not yet published, and the Verfion accompanied with Notes and Illuftrations. By A. Dalzel, M.A. F.RS. Edin. Profeffor of Greek and Principal Librarian in the University of Edinburgh. 4to. 154 pa. Price os. 6d. in boards. Cadell. 1791. THE praifes lavished on Homer for geographic fidelity, by the unanimous voice of ancient and modern criticism, appear to have received additional fanction by this inquiry into the prefent ftate of the Troad, undertaken in a great measure to trace the Homeric topography. When Mr. Chevalier had read his memoir at the meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the committee appointed for publithing papers, not only allotted it the first rank amongst those of the literary clafs in their next volume, but, to prevent all hazard which might be occafioned by the delay of publication, thought proper to haye a verfion publifhed under their own infpection before the original fhould be printed, a task which devolved on Mr. D., who, with the author's full approbation, undertook, in addition to tranflation, to adjust all the references, produce the proper quotations, accom pany the work with notes, and to prepare the whole for the prefs. Befide the preface by the editor, and a poftier pt annexed to it relative to a propofed tranflation of the original into German, by Mr. Heyne of Gottingen, the work is accompanied by tour maps; two from Mr. Chevalier's own furvey of the plain, and the te of ancient Troy; Mr. Pope's; and Mr. Wond's. The work itself is divided into twenty-one chapters. The first five contain the premifes from which the author draws his confequences; an account of his voyage from Venice to cape Baba, on the coast of Afia; a defcription of Alexandria Troas, and it's ruins; the journey thence to the caftle in Afia calid Koum-Kale; from Kouin-Kalé to mount Cotylus, one of the highett fummits of the chain of Ida; and a fecond and a third voyage from Contantinople to Troy in the fecond of thefe he was accompanied by Mr. Cazas, one of the most expert draughtsmen in Europe,' and we cannot forbear prefenting the reader ་ with |
