manners of the people. General observations, as applied to the inhabitants of Greece, cannot well be made it would be a vain undertaking to characterize in one view such a various population. Throughout every part of the country, there may be observed, not only a difference of morals and of habits, but also peculiarities of religion and of language. In the mixed society of one island, the Italian character seems to predominate; in another, Turks or Albanians have introduced their distinctions of manners and customs. Perhaps this may be one of the causes which, added to the fine climate of the country, and to its diversified landscape, communicate such a high degree of cheerfulness during a journey or a voyage in Greece for whether the traveller be upon its continent, or visiting its islands, a succession of new objects is continually presenting itself'; and in places which are contiguous in situation, he may witness a more striking change, both as to natural and to moral objects, than would be found in other countries, for example in Russia, if he were to traverse a very considerable portion of the globe. After all, an author, in the

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"Where'er we tread, 'tis haunted, holy ground,
And one vast realm of wonder spreads around."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, p. 105. Lond. 1805.

arrangement of his materials, cannot be supposed capable of making any exact calculation, as to what his Readers may deem it proper for him to omit, or to insert: but so far as experience has enabled the writer of these Travels to determine, he has endeavoured to obviate former objections; first, by disposing into the form of Notes all extraneous matter, and all citations; and secondly, by compressing even these, as much as possible, both by diminishing the size of the type, and by the omission of Latin interpretations of Greek authors, which are often erroneous. With regard, however, to the numerous additions made to his Work in the form of Notes, it may be proper to state, once for all, that they are exclusively his own, with the exception of the extracts made from the Manuscript Journals of his Friends: and when these occur, the name of the traveller has always been added, to whom the author is indebted for the passage inserted. He has been induced to mention this circumstance, that no person may be made responsible for any of those errors and imperfections which belong solely to himself.

In addition to the Manuscript Journal of Mr. WALPOLE, this part of the Work will be found

to contain also a few Extracts made from the posthumous Papers of the late Lieutenantcolonel JOHN SQUIRE, of the corps of Royal Engineers; who met with a melancholy fate, in the service of his country, at Truxillo in Spain, in the thirty-third year of his age. The death of COLONEL SQUIRE was owing to a fever occasioned by excessive fatigue at the siege of Badajoz. Never was the loss of any officer more deeply and sincerely lamented by his friends and fellow-soldiers. To be employed in fighting the battles of his country was his ruling passion; and in fighting them he had been nobly engaged for the last thirteen years of his life. During that space of time, he served on the several expeditions to the Helder, to Egypt, to South America, to Sweden, under Sir J. Moore, to Portugal and Spain, under the same general, to Zealand, and a second time to the Spanish Peninsula, where he terminated his honourable career. The active mind of Colonel Squire did not content itself with the acquirements proper to his profession only, but was impelled by a large and liberal curiosity to obtain every sort of useful or of interesting knowledge. In all the countries which he visited, he kept a full and accurate journal, not only of military affairs, but of every thing else either curious or

important. It is to Colonel Squire that the literary world owes the discovery of the Inscription upon the pedestal of Pompey's Pillar, near Alexandria, which had eluded the ingenuity of all former travellers.

The Catalogue of the Patmos Library, communicated by the MARQUIS of SLIGO; and the Remarks made by Mr. WALPOLE, not only upon this Catalogue', but also upon the Libraries of Greece; will, it is hoped, be considered as valuable additions to this Work. The author is desirous also to mention his obligation to the last of these Gentlemen, for the assistance he has rendered in the illustration of many of the Inscriptions. Nor can he pass in silence the advantages he has derived from the Manuscript Journal of his friend and companion, Mr. CRIPPS; particularly in that part of his Travels. which relates to EGYPT; where the continuation

(1) The original copy is written in the form usually adopted by the Modern Greeks in their cursive style; abounding in contractions, and containing many orthographical errors. If the Reader only direct his attention to the title of one Manuscript therein mentioned, namely, that of Diodorus Siculus, he will be convinced of the importance of making further inquiry into the state of the Patmos Library; such, for example, as the French Nation caused to be instituted, when they despatched the celebrated Hellenist, Villoison, to the Monasteries of Mount Athos.

of his own narrative was often interrupted by fatigue or by illness.

A more accurate representation of the appearance of antient Inscriptions upon Greek Marbles, than had appeared in former books of travels, it is presumed has been adopted. For this purpose, a new species of type was invented by the author, and used in former publications. It has already received the approbation of literary men; the Society of Antiquaries having applied to the University of Cambridge for the loan of these types, when engaged in publishing the late Professor Porson's restoration of the celebrated Rosetta Inscription. Considerable attention has also been paid towards making improvement in the Plates: and a new mode of representing Hieroglyphics will be found in the Fac-Simile of a Tablet discovered among the Ruins of Sais1.

It may, perhaps, be deemed a bold acknowledgment to confess, that the account of Heliopolis, and of the Memphian Pyramids, was written without consulting a single page of Jacob Bryant's "Observations upon the Antient His

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