of the GrcBco-Roman Era in certain ancient Sites of Asia Minor. 145 



from all that I have been able to decipher of it, to commemorate the erection of 

 a church by a pious Greek, named Evander, whose virtues, as well as the character 

 of his spouse, Aurelia Echneea, are eulogized in language made up of extracts 

 from the Iliad and Odyssey. 



Whilst at Soma, on my road from Kirkagatcli to Pergamus, I met with a 

 few inscriptions, but of such little importance as by no means to repay the 

 trouble of committing them to my note-book. Some of these may be found in 

 the first of Mr. Fellows' volumes of his recent travels in Asia Minor. I may 

 say, indeed, that for this time at least my search after these remains had been 

 arrested, as during my stay at Kirkagatch I had been incapacitated for carrying 

 my first design into execution, which was to include the Troad in my tour, by one 

 of those mishaps which are ever likely to betide a traveller amongst the Greek 

 population whether of Asia Minor or Greece Proper, In short, I was deprived 

 of the means of doing so by the dishonesty of the persons with whom I lodged ; 

 to make the matter worse, Zantiote Greeks, and, therefore, in some sort fellow- 

 subjects, and residing within the district of the Mutsellim of Pergamus, under a 

 protection from the British Consul at Smyrna. I was accordingly forced to re- 

 trace my steps to the latter place as speedily as I could, to replace the funds of 

 which I had been deprived. 



This little disagreeable remembrance I may be pardoned for noticing for the 

 sake of my motive in doing so, which is, to beseech those of my auditory, if such 

 there be, who may entertain a design of penetrating into these regions, to take 

 warning by my example, to confide less than I did in the integrity of their hosts, 

 and keep constantly before their eyes the Grceculus esuriens, and the Grcecia 

 mendax of the satirist of Aquinum. 



I was not, however, prevented from visiting Pergamus, and thus completing 

 my tour of the Apocalyptic sites. I then returned to Smyrna by the coast-road, 

 leaving Magnesia (ad Sipylum) to the left. But a second excursion which I 

 made from thence, namely, to the Dardanelles, and round by Bunar-Bashi 

 (usually regarded as the site of Ilium), and the Ida;an region, to Pergamus, en- 

 abled me to fill up this blank. During the interval of which I speak, I visited 

 also Alexandria (of the Troad), Assos, some Roman military stations, Lectos 

 (the extreme point, to the south, of the Pnameia regna), A'ivali (a town of 

 recent date, and a conspicuous scene of action in the Greek revolution), Temnos 



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