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be considered as complete and perfect in all the 

 details of the ruins and country which they 

 represent. Many villages, and possibly ruins, not 

 noticed by us, may be unexpectedly met with by 

 future travellers, who, however, by means of our 

 map will find themselves in a great degree inde- 

 pendent of the information of the peasantry, 

 which frequently deceives, and causes disappoint- 

 ment and loss of time. The plans will render 

 the brief descriptions of the ruins we visited more 

 intelligible than they otherwise would be. Those 

 of lesser importance are mere sketches, assisted 

 by a few measurements. The map is triangulated 

 from the coast surveys of Captain Beaufort and 

 Captain Graves. The Valley of the Xanthus is 

 from our friend Mr. Hoskyn's survey, published 

 in the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society 

 for 1842. Latitudes were taken with the arti- 

 ficial horizon on some of the mountain summits, 

 which were made the points for triangulation, in 

 order to verify the correctness of Mr. Hoskyn's 

 map ; and from these elevated positions most of 

 the general features were sketched in, or fixed by 

 true bearings and angles without being visited by 

 us. The heights of the mountains are from an- 

 gles of elevation measured with the theodolite ; 

 but, as it is necessary to have well-determined 

 bases to arrive at precise results by such means, 

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