of the Grceco- Roman Era in certain ancient Sites of Asia Minor. 113 



cords of the Pythian shrine for generations on generations ; and yet the part 

 which had been exposed, formed, in all probability, but a small proportion of the 

 monuments which still remained under ground ; and which the deceased scholar 

 would doubtless, had his life been spared, have rescued, as he had done their 

 fellows, from their present state of oblivion. 



The efforts which Miiller made cost him dear. A few months before ray 

 arrival at Delphi, he had been carried off by a malignant fever, which had been 

 brought on by his incessant labours. It is said that he was engaged in preparing 

 a history of Greece, and that this visit to her shrine had been paid in the hope 

 of discovering amongst its vast mass of inscribed monuments, inedited materials 

 for his projected work. Nor would his expectations have been disappointed : 

 for the little which I was enabled to observe, and the less to glean, amongst 

 those treasures, sufficed to convince me that a rich and abundant harvest awaits 

 the student in that spot, whether his attention be devoted to the sacred annals of 

 Greece, or to researches into her dialects. 



The great work of Professor Bockh to which I have referred, leaves, it is 

 true, all other publications of the same class at a vast distance behind it. It may 

 most justly be styled a national performance, and has beeh executed with talent 

 proportioned to the munificence of the government under whose auspices it has 

 been published. It is impossible to read a page of that work without being 

 impressed with the highest admiration of the learning and critical acumen of the 

 author. It is a vast repertory of political and philological learning. Under the 

 first of these heads, I comprehend all subjects which relate to civil economy, all 

 hieratic details, all private or domestic contracts ; under the second, the phi- 

 lology of archaic forms, as well as the more known usages of the refined dialects 

 of Greece and its dependencies. 



But justice to the merits of British scholars demands a meed of praise to be 

 awarded to them, for having contributed in no ordinary degree to the advance- 

 ment of this literature. We all are acquainted with the names of Pococke, 

 Chandler, Chishull, Clarke, and Rose. I mention these amongst a great num- 

 ber of others, as the representatives of their class, but not by any means as en- 

 titled to a monopoly of the honour which is due to talent, labour, and research. 

 The " Antiquitates Asiaticae" of the third of these, Edmund Chishull, was a pub- 

 lication in all respects worthy of the character which he had already acquired by 



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