See Rennell, Geog.

of Herod.p.121.Add Ukert, Geographie der Griechen und Romer, v.
i.p.2, 71 .-- M.] [Footnote 18: See Wood's Observations on Homer, p.320.I have, with pleasure, selected this remark from an author who in general seems to have disappointed the expectation of the public as a critic, and still more as a traveller.

He had visited the banks of the Hellespont; and had read Strabo; he ought to have consulted the Roman itineraries.

How was it possible for him to confound Ilium and Alexandria Troas, (Observations, p.

340, 341,) two cities which were sixteen miles distant from each other?
* Note: Compare Walpole's Memoirs on Turkey, v.