208 A T H E N S. 
CHAP, into the modern nomenclature of places in 
IV. 
Greece, by Italians and by Frenchmen: and it 
ought to be the constant endeavour of authors, 
by whom the country is described, to prevent 
this abuse, by adopting the antient names in 
their writings, where it can be done with pro- 
priety, and certainly in all cases where they 
have been preserved by the inhabitants. It has 
been supposed that the first intelligence of the 
better fate of Athens was communicated to the 
world by the valuable publications of Sir George 
Wheler and Jacob Span : but seven years before 
Wheler and his companion arrived in Athens, it 
had been visited by the traveller above men- 
tioned ; who anticipated almost every thing 
which they have said upon this subject; and the 
narrative of whose Travels, although little 
known, and rarely noticed by any subsequent 
author, contains the most racy description of 
the city and of its inhabitants, of its antiquities 
and statistics, which had appeared before the 
time of its publication. This traveller was De 
. la Guilletiere, or, as he sometimes signed him- 
self, Guillet, answering to a name common in 
England, WILLET. After four years of slavery 
in Barlary, he arrived in Athens, in company 
with two Italians, two Germans, and an English- 
man of the name of Drelingston, the first of our 
