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Biibsequent reflection and study, that were formed those valuable 

 and standard topographical works that appeared so many years 

 later, which, by their well-weighed arguments and accurate obser- 

 vations, have justly caused their author to be termed a " model 

 geographer^'' and from this period also may be dated that partiality 

 for the modern Greek people, that indulgence for their weakness, 

 and that hope for their future, which afterwards inspired many of 

 his lesser writings, and coloured his conversation. 



In 1814 Lieutenant-Colonel Leake was, as an English officer, 

 appointed to attend upon the army of the Swiss Confederation, 

 under the command of the Archduke John, and was for months 

 at Berne, in that capacity, at the conclusion of the great European 

 war. 



On his return to England his literary labours commenced, and 

 were continued with little intermission, and but little farther in- 

 terruption from his more purely professional duties (for he retired 

 from the army in the year 1823), until the day of his death. 



In the year 1814 were published his ' Kesearches in Greece,' 

 in 1821 his first edition of the ' Topography of Athens,' and in 

 1822 his edition of ' Burckhardt's Travels in Nubia, Syria, and 

 Arabia.' In 1824 he narrated the observations he made in Asia 

 Minor 24 years previously. In 1826 issued the ' Historical Outline 

 of the Greek Eevolution,' and in 1829 the ' Demi of Attica.' In 

 1830 he published one of his greatest and most learned works, 

 accompanied by a valuable map, his ' Travels in the Morea,' 

 which, in 1835, were succeeded by his ' Travels in Northern 

 Greece,' a work of equal research and more extensive proportions, 

 with an accurate map on a considerable scale also ; and, in 1841, 

 appeared the 2nd edition of the * Topography of Athens.' 



The latter years of his life were occupied in the production of the 

 * Numismata Ilellenica,' a most considerable and important work, 

 containing an exact and faithful description of every coin in his 

 extensive collection, enriched by critical and historical notes. This 

 was published in 1854; and in 1859, but a few weeks before his 

 death, a supplement on the same plan as the original work issued 

 from the press, forming with that a mine of information for the col- 

 lector, the antiquary, and the historical student, who in turn 

 might find, as Colonel Leake himself had found, that the design on 

 a coin could throw strong light upon many a question of ancient 

 history or topography otherwise obscure or disputed. 



Colonel Leake was a fellow of several learned Societies, both 



