PREFACE. XV 



With these preliminary remarks on the advantages 

 which the sunny little kin<r(h,iii of r()rtii<^r.'il offers, and 

 with the desire to make known the delights wliich we have 

 experienced there, so that others of our countrymen may 

 he tempted to go and taste for themselves; and under 

 the belief that this outlying corner of Europe has been 

 strangely overlooked, and as much neglected by authors 

 as travellers, I venture to send forth this narrative of our 

 tour, trusting it may meet from an indulgent public the 

 same favour kindly accorded to my travels on the Nile. 



A. C. S. 



Yateshiry Rectouy 



Fel>. 1870. 



