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his work on theBustrophedon Inscription of Sigeum, and which had brought him 

 into a certain degree of collision, not derogatory to his scholarship, with the illus- 

 trious Bentley. This, and the publication which succeeded it, I reckon to be, on 

 the whole, the most important of any which had appeared on palteography before 

 the volume of Rose, who, in redeeming the pledge which his abilities and learning 

 had given, had the advantage of an improved state of antiquarian knowledge, 

 and of literary correspondence of the highest order. 



His learned volume, entitled " Inscriptiones Grsecae vetustissimae," was pub- 

 lished in 1 825, at the expense of the University of Cambridge, and is enriched 

 with prolegomena and notes, evincing considerable research, a great part of them, 

 moreover, the fruits of his intimacy with Professor Bockh. 



A kindred spirit has animated the scholars of other nations ; for example, 

 Italy and France ; the first of which can recount such names as Maffei, Lanzi, 

 Visconti, amongst her contributors to this department of learning ; whilst 

 France has had her Spon, a traveller, — and amongst her antiquarians, a Bar- 

 thelemy. a Raoul de la Rochette, and a Boissonade. I refrain from naming 

 another who certainly made considerable noise in his day, but whose archaso- 

 graphical exploits in the Peloponnese have handed down his name to posterity 

 with a somewhat worse than an equivocal reputation attached to it : for it is, I be- 

 lieve, a matter of notoriety, that the researches of Fourmont have not benefited 

 scholars so much as his vain and dishonest pretences have occasioned them 

 trouble in disengaging the ore from the dross, what was truly classical and 

 authentic from the unlearned and spurious admixture. 



The character of this traveller may be sufficiently estimated from the fact, 

 that Professor Biickh has devoted an article of much length, in his great work, 

 to the exposure of his forgeries. Nay more, it is even reported of him, but 

 with what truth I can only judge from hearsay, that, such was his narrow-mind- 

 edness and illiberality, he caused, in many instances, monuments to be defaced, 

 lest succeeding travellers should profit by their inspection. This at least I can 

 state with certainty, that some instances of this ungenerous temper have been 

 pointed out to myself during my tour in Greece. 



In concluding this part of my subject, it may be interesting to my audience 

 for me to remark, that the educated classes of Modern Greece are directing 

 their attention to this amongst other branches of Hellenic literature. It was 



