ON THE TOPOGRAPHY OF ATHENS. 



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But even Pausanias requires every assistance which can be afforded 

 by modern information, and particularly by the best plans that have 

 been taken of the locality of Athens ; while on the other hand, 

 these plans derive almost all their interest from the details with 

 which he has filled them. How far they both agree, in all those 

 points where they can be compared, or rather, with what accuracy 

 they usually coincide ; will appear in the course of the following 

 remarks which accompany the progress of Pausanias through Athens, 

 and are written under a conviction of the necessity of pointing out 

 the ill consequences of deserting such a guide. 



To render this view of the subject more clear and intelligible, it 

 may be proper to give a preliminary account of the various attempts 

 that have been made to lay down an accurate plan of Athens. 



The first regular plan of Athens was published in Fanelli's Atene 

 Attica, about the year 1704. It appears to have been engraved from 

 an actual survey made in 1687, by the engineers who were employed 

 at the siege of the Acropolis. The situation of the principal ruins is 

 laid down in this plan with a tolerable degree of accuracy ; and it 

 has been copied with a few corrections and additions by Dr. Chandler, 

 in the 2d volume of his travels, as well as by Le Roi, in his Antiqui- 

 ties of Athens. 



The second was composed by Stuart, on the basis of a regular 

 trigonometrical survey, made during his stay there in the years 1751, 

 1752, 1753 ; but it was not published till many years after his death. 



The atlas to the travels of Anacharsis has supplied us with a 

 third, constructed by Mon r . Barbie du Boccage, after the observations 

 which were made on the spot by Mon r . Foucheron in 1781. 



And lastly, we have a fourth by Fauvel, published in the atlas to 

 the travels of Olivier, which is by far the most accurate of all. The 

 long residence of this last-mentioned gentlemen at Athens, (a period 

 of seventeen years,) had enabled him not only to make the necessary 

 trigonometrical observations for such a work ; but even to introduce 

 most of those details which had been omitted by other topographers, 

 (for instance the streets of the modern city) ; and from the examin- 



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