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will be unnecessary in this place to notice the CHAP. 
rest 5 . L_ , 
We accompanied Signor Lusieri to the THE- 
SEUM; and having- obtained admission to the 
interior of the temple, paid a melancholy visit 
to the grave of that accomplished scholar Grave of 
TWEDDEJLL. 
whose name we had found inscribed upon the 
pillars of Sunium; the exemplary and lamented 
TwEDDELL 4 . It was simply a small oblong 
(3) See " Greek Marbles," Nos. x. XI. xn. xv. xvn. xvui. xxil. 
xxvn. XXX. xxxin. xxxv. xxxvi. xxxvii. Cambridge, 1809. 
(4) JOHN TWF.DDELL, the eldest sou of Francis Tu'eddell, Esq. of 
Threepwood\n the County of Northumberland, was born on the 1st of 
June, 1769; and after parsing through the u-ual course of preparatory 
education, was entered at Trinity- College, Cambridge, where he distin- 
guished himself by such proofs of original genius as are, perhaps, 
without example, even in the records of that learned Society. As 
a candidate for University honours, his " Prolusiones Academics:" 
attest his success to" have been equallv brilliant and extraordinary, 
and supersede the necessity of particular illustration. Mr. Tweddell 
was elected a Fellow of Trimty College in 179-', and soon afterwards 
entered himself a Student of Lincoln's fun, where he kept his terms, 
and continued to reside until the year 17.95, when he left England to 
commence his travels on the continent of Europe and met with that 
untimely fate which has mixed his ashes with those of the sages and 
philosophers of Greece. He visited Switzerland, Germany, most parts 
of the Russian Empire, and particularly the Crimea^ where his inter- 
course with Professor Pallas was of the most intimate kind, and had 
so endeared him to that amiable scholar, that the admiration with 
which he spoke of him partook of the tenderness and affection of a 
father. From the borders of the Eu.rine, where bis researches were 
both diligent and productive, he proceeded to Constantinople; and 
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