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M. Gorceix of the French School at Athens, but of this we can find no 

 further record. Urquhart, Barth, and Tozer all report seeing higher 

 peaks beyond any that they attained, while Heuzey's account is con- 

 fused and by no means proves that he was on the highest peak or even 

 knew which was the highest. 



There may have been ascents since 1869, but so far we have not been 

 able to discover a trace of -any until the unsuccessful attempts of 

 Engineer Edwart Richter of Jena, Germany, in 1909, 1910, and 191 1, the 

 last of which ended in his capture by bandits. This episode created a 

 great stir in Germany, comparable to the case of Miss Stone of a few 

 years previous. As a result of the Balkan wars of 1912-13, the region 

 in which Mt. Olympus is situated became a part of the Kingdom of 

 Greece, after being for some five centuries under the Ottoman Empire. 

 During the Turkish domination Olympus was one of the principal 

 strongholds of the Klephtes, or Greek bandits, but with the advent of 

 the Greek government the region is now considered safe. 



Although we are perhaps no surer than our predecessors that we have 

 been on the very highest summit of Mt. Olympus, we were unques- 

 tionably on one of the highest peaks. The swirling clouds that obscured 

 now one point, now another, prevented us from determining the matter 

 beyond doubt. Perhaps the most important result of our expedition, 

 aside from the series of photographs that we obtained, was to establish 

 what must prove to be the most direct and practicable route to the 

 summit crests. Of our predecessors, Urquhart alone started from the 

 same base, and it is apparent from his narrative that he kept too far 

 to the east after leaving the monastery. 



All of the accounts included in the following bibliography make in- 

 teresting reading and deserve to be better known. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MT. OLYMPUS 



Urquhart, David. "The Spirit of the East." 2 vols. London, 1838. 



Heuzey, Leon. "Le Mont Olympe et I'Acarnanie." Paris, i860. 



Barth, Dr. Heinrich. "Reise durch das Innere der Europaischen 

 Tiirkie." Berlin, 1864. 



Tozer, Rev. Henry Fanshawe. "Researches in the Highlands of Tur- 

 key." 2 vols. London, 1869. 



Richter, Ingenieur Edwart. "Meine Erlebnisse in der Gefangen- 

 schaft am Olymp." Leipzig, 191 1. 



Leake, William Martin. "Travels in Northern Greece." 4 vols. Lon- 

 don, 1835. 



Cvijic, Dr. J. "Grundlinien der Geographic und Geologic von Maze- 

 donien und Altserbien." Gotha, 1908. 



Tozer, Rev. Henry Fanshawe. "Lectures on the Geography of 

 Greece." London, 1873. 



Guides-Joanne. "Grece," part II. Paris, 1903. 



Neumann, C. und Partsch, J. "Physikalische Geographic von Grie- 

 chenland." Breslau, 1885. 



Map published by K. u. K. Militargeographisches Institut. Vienna, 

 1911. 



