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 GRAECU. ing a Flora Graeea in 10 folio volumes, with 100 pli&teB in each, and a Prodromut of the work, with- oat plates. These works afterwards appeared ; and extracts from the Journal of his Travels were given hj Walpole in Memoim relating to European and Asiatic Turkey, Land. 1817, 4to., and in Travels to fforiout Countries of the East, Lond. 1820, 4to. In both of these works there are also some valuable papers by Hawkins. Of the numerous books of travels in Greece which hare appeared in the present century, the following require mention : — PouquevilIaB, Voyage en Mo- Tee h Constantinople^ en Albaniej et dans plusieurs autres Parties ds V Empire Oihomain, pendant les eum^es 1798 et 1801 : but thb well-known work is fall of great inaccuracies; and the author, probably, did not visit many of the places which he describes. In 1805 he was appointed French consul at Janina, where he resided several years, and from whence he ▼isited the adjdning countries, Thessaly, Epirus, &c. The results of these travels appeared in a new work — Voyage dans laGrkce, Paris, 1820—1821, 5 vols. 8vo. This work is of more value than the former one, but still must be used with caution. Hobhouse, Journey through Albania, and other Provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia, to Constantinople, during tA« years 1809 and 1810, London, 1813. H. HoLLAKD, Travds in the Ionian Islands, Alba- ma, Thessaly, Macedonia, 4^,, during the years 1812 and 1813, London, 1815; and, 2nd ed.,2vQls. 8vo. 1819. DoDWBLL, A Classical cmd Topogra- phical Tour through Greece, during the years 1801, 1805, 4 1806, London, 1819, 2 vols.4ta, — the most valuable wOrk on Grecian geography that had hitherto appeared, and one which may still be consulted with advantage. Sir W. Cell traveDed in Greece at tiie same time as Dodwell, and partly in company with him ; and his works are of still more value than the Travels of the latter. They are: — 1. Iti- nerary of the Morea, Lond. 1817; 2nd ed. 1827: 2. Itinerary of Greece, with a Commentary ofPau- sanias and Strabo, Lond. 1818 (containing only Argolis) : 3. Itinerary of Greece, Lond. 1819 : 4. Narrative of a Journey in the Morea, Lond. 1823. But it is to Colonel Leake that we are indebted for the most valuable information which we yet possess respecting many parts of Groece. A first- nte observer, a good scholar, and a man of sound judgment and great sagacity, he combined qualities rarely found in the same individual, and may safely be pranounoed the first geographer of the age. He travelled in Greece for several years at the commence- ment of the present century ; but it was long before he published detailed accounts of these travels. His works are: — The Topography of Athens, with some Remarks on Us Antiquities, Lond. 1821, 8vo.; of this work, a second edition appeared in 1 841, accom- panied by a second volume, on The Demi of Attica, which had originally appeared in the Transactions of the Bqyal Society of Literature : Travels in the Morea, vnth a Map and Plans, Lond. 1830, 3 vols. 8to.: Travels in Northern Greece, Lond. 1835, 4 vols. 8vo.: Peloponnesiaea f a Supplement to TVttvels M the Morea, Lond. 1846, 8va This kst work was written in consequence of the researehes of the French Commission in the Morea, spoken of below, and is accompanied by a large map of the Peloponnesus, reduced from ihe French map, on a scale of something more than a third, but not with- out some variations. We may close our notice of the works of English travellere in Greece with GRAECLA. 1017 CoLOHSL Mdkb*8 Valuable, though unpretending, volumes, entitled, Journal of a Tour in Greece and the Ionian Islands, Edinburgh, 1842, 2 vols., whch we have frequently consulted, in the course of thb work, ?rith great advantage. Of the modem French and German works, we must mention first the publications of the French Commission of Geography, Natural History, and Archaeology, which was sent to the Peloponnesus in 1829, and remained there two years. These publkations are : — Expedition Sdentifique deMorie, ordownie par le Gouvemement Fran^ais, par Abel Blouet, Amable RavcHsi^, Achille Poirot, F^Iix Tr^zel, et Fr^. de Goumay, Paris, 1831 — 1838, 3 vols, fo.: Travaux de la Section des Sciences Physiques, sous la direction de M. Bory de St Vincent, Paris, 1 831, fo. : Recherches GSographiques sur les Buines de la Morie, par M. E. Pouillon Boblaye, Paris, 1836, 4to. : also, Bory de St Vincent, Relation du Voyage de la Commission Sdentifique de Moree, Paris et Strassb., 1837, 2 vols. 8vo. This Commission also constructed a map of the Peloponnesus, on a scale of the two hundred-thousandth part of a degree of latitude, or twenty-one English inches and three-fifths. Ross, who resided several yean at Athens, where he held the poet of professor in the university, and who travelled through various parts of Greece, has published several valuable works: — ReisenundRei- serouten durch Griechenland, Berlin, 1841 ; vol i., containing travels in Peloponnesus, is all that has appeared of this work: Reisen aufden Griechischen Inseh desAegaischen Meeres, Stuttgart & Tiibingen, 1840, 2 vols. 8vo.; the third volume appeared in 1845, and the fourth at Halle in 1852: Wander- ungen in Griechenland, Halle, 2 vols. 8vo. 1851. One of the most important of all the modem German works is by Curtius, Pelaponnesos, eine historisch- geographische Beschreibung der Hallnnsel, Goth. 2 vols. 8va 1851—1852. Besides these, the fol- lowing works all deserve mention, of which the two first are particularly valuable. Fobcuhammek, HeUenika Griechenland im Neuen das Alte, Berlin, 1837. Ulrichs, Reisen und Forschungen in Griechenland. Erster Thsal^Reise fiber Delphi durch Phocis und Boeotien bis Theben, Bremen, 1840. BucHON, Z*a Greee continentale et laMor^e; Voyage, S^jour^ et Etudes Historiques en 1840--41, Paris, 184a Fiedler, Reise durch alle Theile des Ko- nigreiches Griechenland, Leipzig, 2 vols. 8vo. 1840 ^-41. Aldenhoven, Ittn^raire descriptif de VAttique et du P^loponnese, avec cartes et plans topographiques, Athens, 1841, taken ahnost entirely from the publications of the French Commission. Brandis, MittheHungen €ber Griechenland, 3 vols. 1842. Stbphani, Reise durch dnige Gegenden des nordUchen Griechenkmdes, Leipz. 1843. The following are the chief systematic works on the geography of Greece : — Mannert, (reo^ropAte, of • which the volume containing Thessaly and Epirus appeared in 1812, and the one containing Northern Greece, Peloponnesus, and the islands of the Archi- pelago in 1822; but neither b of much value. Erusb, Bellas, oder geographisch-antiquarische Darst^lung des alien GriecherUandes, Leipe. 3 vols. 8vo. 1825 — 1827, which, besides tlie general intro- duction, contains only an account of Attica, Megaris, Boeotia, Phocis, Doris, Locris, Aetolia, and Acamania. Cramer, A Geographical tmd Bistorical Descrip. tUm of Ancient Greece, vnth a Map and a Plan of Athens, 8 vols. 8vo. Oxf. 1828. Hofomnn, Grie- chenland und die Griechen im AlterthuMf Leipzig,