290 ATHENS. 
heap of earth, like those over the common 
v 1 '-' graves in all our English church-yards, without 
stone or inscription of any kind. The body, 
too, had been carelessly interred : we were told 
that it did not lie more than three or four feet 
beneath the surface. The part of the temple 
where it has been buried is now converted into 
a Greek church, dedicated to St. George; but as 
it is left open during particular times of the 
year, and is always liable to be entered by 
foraging animals who creep into such retreats, 
we thought it probable that the body would be 
disturbed unless further precaution were used; 
and at any rate it was proper that some stone 
should be laid upon the spot. Having therefore 
obtained permission to take up the coffin, and 
after spending some part of the summer of 1798 under the hospitable 
roof of Spencer Smith, Esq. the English Minister, he took his depar- 
ture for the Grecian Islands ; and having traversed the provinces of 
Macedonia and T/tessaly, arrived at Athens; where, after a residence 
of several months, he reached the period of all his learned labours, 
on the 25th of July, 1799. 
Mr. Tweddeil, independent of the advantages which his own merit 
secured for him in the countries which he visited, possessed recom- 
mendations and facilities of a superior kind for conducting his learned 
pursuits ; and his industry keeping pace with his talents and oppor- 
tunities, his Collections and Manuscripts are known to have been exten- 
sive and singularly valuable. Perhaps no traveller of modern times 
has enjoyed in an equal degree the means of investigating the Antiqui- 
ties of Greece. 
