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arrived before the spoliation of this part of the CHAP. 
antient city; and we therefore saw all these 
interesting objects, as they existed in the time of 
Pericles. 
We then entered the gate of the modern city: 
and almost the first object we beheld was the 
only remaining structure of all the consecrated 
fabrics that once adorned the famous Street of 
the Tripods, the elegant CHORAGIC MONUMENT 
OF LvsrciiATES 6 . In the small Capuchin Con- 
vent annexed to this building, our friend and 
former companion in the PLAIN OF TROY, 
Don Battista Lusieri\ had fixed his residence. 
(6) See Stuart's Antiq. of Athens, vol.1, ch. iv. Plate 3. Land. 1762. 
(7) This celebrated artist, better known by the name of Don Tita t 
is a native of Naples : he resided many years in Italy, where he was 
renowned for his beautiful drawings in water-colours. Many of his 
best works are in the Collections of our English Nobility. By some, 
his compositions have been deemed too laboured ; but his colouring is 
exquisite, and nothing can exceed the fidelity and perfection of his 
outline and perspective. It may be said of Lusieri, as of Claude 
Jsorrain, " If he be not the Poet, he is the Historian of Nature." 
When the French invaded Naples, he retired to Sicily, and was long 
employed among th Ruins of Agrigentum, devoted entirely to his 
favourite pursuit. The desire of seeing Greece, tempted him to 
follow the British Embassy to Constantinople, in 1799: whence he 
removed to Alliens; where he now lives, surrounded by every thing 
that may exercise his genius ; and where he is not less distinguished 
by his amiable disposition, and disinterested attention to travellers 
who visit the city, than by his taste, and knowledge of erery thing 
connected with the history of the Fine Arts. 
