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great measure by them, that is, to follow the course of my recent travels ; to 

 conduct my hearers over the ground which I have traversed ; and at my halting- 

 places to share with them my palace, my hovel, or my tent, as the case may be ; 

 and then to unpack before them my treasures of by-gone ages, whether sought in 

 the desert, or amidst the habitations of my fellow-men ; whether surrounded by 

 the ruins of ancient splendor, or the tombs of departed greatness ; whether ex- 

 posed to the chilling blasts of the alpine region, or fanned by the zephyr of the 

 valley, or scorched with the rays of a tropical sun. Limited as I was to a certain 

 period of absence, it was quite impossible for me to consult my ease, or the state 

 of the weather, in making my visits to ancient sites. With but rare exceptions, 

 I was in constant motion; I was in consequence subjected to innumerable hard- 

 ships and inconveniences, from which travellers in those imperfectly civilized 

 reo-ions, who have time at their command, are enabled to exempt themselves. I 

 was accordingly forced to traverse the burning plains of Asia Minor in the dog- 

 days, and to make my visit to Greece during mid-winter, in which region I shall 

 not soon forget the perils my health and person encountered, more especially in 

 the interior of the Morea, where the country has been, until very lately, a per- 

 fect wilderness ; and the more civilized districts of which are but slowly emerging 

 into social life, after the terrible vengeance wreaked upon the Moreotes by the 

 hordes of the Egyptian Pasha. Roofless dwellings, wasted fields, ruined villages, 

 and an Impoverished people bade mournful welcome to my retinue and myself, 

 after many an hour's exposure to "the pelting of the pitiless storm" in the 

 alpine solitudes of the Peloponnese. Nor has that scourge of Greece, under the 

 Musulman rule, the pestilence of the Klepts, been wholly banished from the 

 country ; although, thanks to an improved system of police, and some vigorous 

 measures adopted lately by the government, the evil has been materially dimi- 

 nished. 



The researches of which I propose to give the Academy some account at 

 present, commenced in Asia Minor, and embraced the following sites ; Ephesus, 

 Gheyerah (the representative of Aphrodisias), Ailah Shehir (the ancient Phila- 

 delphia) ; Sart, that is, Sardes ; Kirkagatch, a Turkish town on the road from 

 Thyatira to Pergamus, and which the inscriptions found there seem to prove to 

 have been in some way connected with Stratonicea : Ak-Hissar, which occupies 

 part of the site of the ancient Thyatira ; Pergamus ; Eski-Stanpiil, the site of 



