Description of the plain of Troy : with a map of that region, delineated from an actual survey : read in French before the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Feb 21 and 28 and March 21 1791 . fight about thebody of Patroclus is under the Trojan wall. His bodybeing carried o£F, Hector and tEneas purfue the Greeksto the fortification4. And in the eighteenth, upon Achil-less appearing, they retire and encamp without the fortifi-cation. In the twentieth, the fight is flill on that fide next the fea,becaufe the Trojans, being purfued by Achilles, pafs overthe Scamander as they run towards Troy VPope feems
Description of the plain of Troy : with a map of that region, delineated from an actual survey : read in French before the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Feb 21 and 28 and March 21 1791 . fight about thebody of Patroclus is under the Trojan wall. His bodybeing carried o£F, Hector and tEneas purfue the Greeksto the fortification4. And in the eighteenth, upon Achil-less appearing, they retire and encamp without the fortifi-cation. In the twentieth, the fight is flill on that fide next the fea,becaufe the Trojans, being purfued by Achilles, pafs overthe Scamander as they run towards Troy VPope feems furprifed that Homer has not exprefled themanner in which the armies pafled the river. 1 he reafon ofhis filence on that fubjedt is eafily explained. The Scamanderis but a rivulet about fifteen feet broad, and three feet might hâve fufpedled this to be the reafon, fince he hashimfelf very properly remarked, that the following battles are either in the river i/e/f, or between that and the could an engagement hâve taken place in a river of anyconfiderable depth ? CHAR 1 Iliad. xvi. 396. * Diad. xvii. 760. 1 l id. 700. Ibid. xx. i. &c. 3 Ibid. xvii.
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