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fortresses and means of defence, and to make their condition known 

 to the native chiefs and governors. In pursuance of these orders he 

 travelled during two years in Northern Greece and the Morea, and 

 discharged his duties to the full satisfaction of the home authorities, 

 while, as has been remarked, "his peculiar tastes and talents for 

 research received full development in a country where every day's 

 journey produced an historical problem, which it taxed his erudition 

 and critical acumen to solve." 



On the breaking out of hostilities between England and the Porte 

 in 1807, Capt. Leake was detained and held prisoner by the authorities 

 at Salonica, from which place he, however, escaped to the frigate 

 ' Thetis,' and returned to England for the restoration of his health 

 in 1808. 



From October of the same year until 1810 he again travelled in 

 the Levant, under command to open communications with AH Pasha 

 of Joannina, and other authorities of the Ottoman government, with 

 a view to induce them to proceed to oifensive operations against the 

 French, by offers of naval assistance along the coast, and presents of 

 ordnance and ammunition. To these successive years of travel he 

 owed his knowledge of the various countries, their people and monu- 

 ments, which afterwards proved so valuable and instructive in his 

 literary labours. 



These labours were resumed on his retirement from the army in 

 1823, and were continued to the time of his death on the 6th of 

 January, 1860. His works comprise ' Researches in Greece,' 

 * Topography of Athens,' an edition of ' Burckhardt's Travels,' 

 ' Travels in Asia Minor,' ' Historical Outline of the Greek Revolu- 

 tion,' ' Demi of Attica,' besides other books of travels in Greece, 

 and on the topography and coins of that country, a country for 

 which he always felt the liveliest interest. His sympathy for Greek 

 nationality gained him the gratitude of the people, as manifested by 

 the voluntary attendance of the Greek minister at his funeral. 



In 1838 Col. Leake married Mrs. Marsden, widow of William 

 Marsden, Esq., F.R.S., the historian of Sumatra, and daughter of 

 the eminent oriental scholar Sir Charles Wilkins, F.R.S. 



Col. Leake was a member of various learned societies, English and 

 foreign. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1815, and was 

 elected a member of the Royal Society Club in 1828. His intellec- 



