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thence to Jerusalem by Gaza, to Syria, Cyprus and Stancho, 
so that he did not reach Constantinople again till October, 
1831. It was then in agitation to employ him on a mission 
to France, from the Porte, but this scheme was abandoned. 
In 1832, he visited Smyrna, and thence went to Rhodes 
and the adjoining coast of Asia-Minor. His own recital 
proceeds no farther than Aidin Guzel Hissar, so that it is 
presumed he went back from this town to Smyrna. 
In 1833, he received a visit from M. Coquebert de Mont- 
bret, and they settled for a time at Therapia, where M. and 
Mme. Aucher-Eloy opened a French school. It was about 
this period that the wife and daughter of our traveller con- 
ducted the education of the daughters of M. Vogoridi, after- 
wards called Prince of Samos. Accompanied by M. de 
Montbret, Aucher-Eloy investigated all the environs of Con- 
stantinople and Broussa, and especially Mount Olympus. 
In February, 1834, these friends started on a new expe- 
dition into Asia. Passing through Nicomedia, Angora, Ce- 
sarea, Adana, Antioch, and Aleppo, they reached Armenia 
by Aintab, Malatia, and the Upper Euphrates, and thence to 
Erzeroum. M. Charles Texier, well known by his noble 
archzeological labours in Asia Minor, met them at Trebisond, 
and though he had been acquainted with Aucher-Eloy at 
Constantinople, the previous year, he could scarcely recognise 
him, he was so wasted and his hair had become perfectly grey: 
M. Outrey, the French consul at Trebisond, supplied the tra- 
vellers with the means of returning to Constantinople, by the 
shores of the Black Sea. The first narration stops at Erzeroum ; 
we, however, are enabled to add some new details of this 
journey, and its entire accomplishment, gathered from papers 
communicated by the family of M. de Montbret, who re- 
turned to Europe by way of Semlin and Germany. 
Early in February, 1835, Aucher-Eloy set off alone, and 
went to Broussa, Koutaya, Konieh, the chain of the Taurus 
and Adana, to Aleppo. From this point he directed his 
course to Bagdad, and visited Kermanchah, Hamadan, and 
Ispahan. Then he made an excursion to Zerda-Kou, west 
