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is to be paid to a professor of Rural Economy, and the remainder 

 of the rents of the estate above mentioned is destined to purchase 

 books for him."* 



Journey in Asia Minor : — from Parium to the Troad : — Ascent to 

 the Summit of Ida : — the Salt Springs of Tousla : — the Ruins of 

 Assos. — From the Papers of Dr. Hunt, p. 84. 



In this journey, Dr. Hunt was accompanied by the late Professor 

 Carlyle. In their survey of the Troad, they were conducted by their 

 guides to a part of the country which no traveller has yet visited. Of 

 the magnificent ruins at Assos, there has been hitherto no published 

 account ; they are slightly mentioned in the Voyage Pittoresque of 

 M. de Choiseul. 



The Editor acknowledges his obligations to Shute Barrington, 

 Lord Bishop of Durham, and to George Tomline, Lord Bishop of 

 Lincoln, for the letters of the late Professor Carlyle, addressed to 

 them from Constantinople and other parts of Turkey, p. 152. 



Various and contradictory reports had been circulated at different 

 times, respecting the contents of the library of the Seraglio. 

 Toderini (T. 2. Letterat. Turches) was informed that it contained 

 many volumes in the Oriental dialects, and some manuscripts of the 

 Greek and Latin writers. In answer tp the enquiries of the Abbe 

 Sevin, it was said, that the MSS. had been burnt. Dositheus, in his 

 History of the Patriarchs of Jerusalem, printed in 1715, mentions 

 the library of the Greek emperors as still existing. The late Pro- 



* Tne account in the text, relating to Dr. Sibthorp, is taken, by permission of Sir J. 

 Smith, from a more enlarged memoir printed in Rees's Cyclopaedia. 



