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yi. — Memoir of Researches amongst the inscribed Monuments of the Grceco- 

 Roman Era, in certain ancient Sites of Asia Minor. By James Kennedy 

 Bailie, D. D., late F. T. C. D., and Lecturer of Greek in the University. 



Bead May 9 and 23, 1842. 



PART I. 



THE APOCALYPTIC CITIES. 



I. IHERE are few departments in the extensive field of classical antiquities 

 which have excited greater interest, or to which scholars have applied themselves 

 with more zeal, than the philology of inscriptions ; those memorials of past ages 

 which, more intimately than perhaps any other monuments, bring us into con- 

 tact with the laws, the institutions, the manners, and, it may in a certain sense 

 be added, the languages of the civilized nations of antiquity. On this point I 

 feel assured, that it is quite unnecessary for me to enlarge at any great length 

 in the hearing of my present auditory, composed as it is of persons who are fully 

 prepared by their respective studies and accomplishments, to acquiesce in the 

 truth of what is here stated; but as it has fallen to my lot, recently, to be placed 

 in circumstances peculiarly favourable to the giving me a somewhat clearer in- 

 sight into the various details of this branch of literature than I had ever possessed 

 before, to a juster appreciation of its value, and to the improvement of my know- 

 ledge of it, by enabling me to prosecute my studies and my researches at the very 

 fountain-head, it will not, perhaps, be regarded in the light of a presumptuous 

 attempt on the part of the writer of the present memoir, to endeavour, by sub- 

 mitting it to their consideration, to awaken a spirit of inquiry commensurate to 

 the importance of the subject. This, in the present state of literature and literary 

 research, it would be difficult to overrate. 



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