T'-.gJpt and Verjta. S^ 



i!\e Troade, and, for the fccond time, travcrfcd that fertile 

 country. We paid a vifit to the ancient fitc of Trov; faw 

 the fourccs of the Scaniander; v-ent along the fliored of the 

 Siniois, and thence proceeded to examine tlie Fuins of the 

 Troy of Alexander. We ftoppcd half a day at Ipfera ; went 

 on (hore at Cape Suniuni to fee the remains of tlK- temple of 

 Minerva, and arrived at Athens on the 6th of May. We 

 did not reniain above twenty days in that cvtv, which ex- 

 hibits fo many beautiful monuments, and calb to remem- 

 brance fo trreat events. I have brought with n\e a plan of 

 the ancient and modem city, by Fauvel ; and oi>e of Mara- 

 thon, which I traced out q\\ the fpot. I collefted information 

 relpc6l!ng the prefent ftate of Athens and the neighbouring^ 

 countrv, tn compare it with what it was formerly. I have 

 fecn Mount IJymettuSy the marble quarries of Pentelica, the 

 cities of Eleufis and Megara. We palTcd through theStrait.-> 

 6f Salamis, where the Perfian fleets were deftroyed ; and 

 fravcrfed the lithmus to endnirk again on the Gulph of 

 Lepanto, from which wc repaired to Patras. 



It was time to terminate our obfcrvations on the Ottoman 

 empire, and to quit thefe countries, Jiow barbarou?, thouoh 

 ft)rmerly the feat of the arts, fciences and philofophv. It 

 was time to place aurfelves under the regis of the republic. 

 We arri\'ed at Corfu on the 14th of July, after having 

 ^juched at Cephalonia, Ithaca, and Parga. \\'e performed 

 quarantine for 21 days. It was not yet finiflied, and we 

 hegau to think .of continuing o-ur journey through ltal\', 

 though cmbarradl'd with a confiderable coUeftion, when C. 

 Comcyras, conmiiffary general of the direilory, arrived. We 

 iinmediately applied to him in order to procure a palliioc to 

 Ancona. He gave us reafoii to hope that he would foon 

 aflign to us for thJt purpofc a fmall vellel beloneing to the 

 . republic ; and, in the mean lime, I traverl'ed the iHand and 

 environs, fometinits alone, and fometimes with my collcagtic, 

 fo procure inforn^ation rtfpecting the natural productloi.s of 



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