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The Admirers of Homer; and Lovers of Historic Poetry are deprived of a good deal of Instruction and Pleasure by the Loss of the Writings of Demetrius of Scepjis. This little Village, the Place of the Writer's Birth, was situated upon a Skirt of Mount Ida, not many Miles from Troy. As he knew every Mead and Brook in the Country, and that there was nei ther Hill nor Vale, nor hardly a By-way that had escaped his Notice, he wrote a Commen tary of thirty Books upon few more than sixty Verses of Homer's Catalogue of the Trojans. There he ascertained the real Places of Homers Descriptions, and pointed out the Scenes of the remarkable Actions. He shewed where the Greeks had drawn up their Ships ; where Achil les encamped with his Myrmidons ; where He ftor drew up the Trojans j and from what Coun tries the Auxiliaries of the several Nations had come to Priam. In short, he fixed the Geo graphy of the Trojan Affairs, and actually per formed what Virgil feigns, when he introduces Eneas relating the Curiosity of the Trojans to view the Encampments of the Greeks after their feigned Departure : p.-j??. " zyf.

— Our Pleasure was to view The late-left Grecian Camp, and desert Shore Here Rh