xiv PREFACE. 



" Agreste et ferox genus hominum lorica induti, arcum in manibus 

 gestant, et nullius parent imperio ; sed rapinis et latrociniis assueti 

 obscuram ducunt vitam, Christiani nomine, sed reipsa barbari et exleges 

 plane." Cotovic, Itin. 61. 



Remarks added to the Journal of Mr. Morritt, illustrating Part of his 

 Route through the ancient Messenia and Laconia : — from the Papers of 

 the late Dr. Sibthorp, p. 60.* 



" In the year 1784, Professor Sibthorp projected his first tour into 

 Greece, and engaged a draftsman of great excellence, Mr. F. Bauer, 

 to be the companion of his expedition ; they arrived in Crete in 

 1786. This island and many other parts of the Levant were exa- 

 mined by Dr. Sibthorp in that and the following year ; and he was 

 enabled to collect a large mass of documents respecting the birds, and 

 fishes, and plants of those celebrated countries, and to satisfy many 

 enquiries respecting the state of agriculture and medicine among the 

 inhabitants of them. 



" Dr. Sibthorp's constitution had suffered much from the fatigues 

 and exertions undergone by him during his journey into Greece ; yet 

 sensible how much was still wanting to perfect the undertaking which 

 he had originally designed, he determined to devote himself to the 

 further prosecution of it, namely the botanical investigation of 

 Greece, and especially the determination of the plants mentioned by 

 its classical authors. 



« In 1794, he again set out for Turkey ; and was joined at Constan- 

 tinople by Mr. Hawkins, who had accompanied him during part of 



* These remarks are published by the permission of Mr. Hawkins, to whom the Editor is 

 also indebted for many communications, which are properly noticed, wherever they occur, 

 in this work. 



