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; he 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?