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Lusieri promising to superintend the work, we CHAP. 
endeavoured to provide a proper covering for the . 
grave ; promising to send an inscription worthy 
of the name it was destined to commemorate. 
Large blocks of Pentelican marble from the 
Parthenon, which had been sawed from the bas- 
reliefs intended for our Ambassador, were then 
lying in the Acropolis ready for the purpose : we 
therefore begged for one of these ; and before 
we left Athens, every thing had been settled, 
and seemed likely to proceed according to our 
wishes 1 . m 
This beautiful Doric temple, more resembling, 
(l) A curious sort of contest has, however, since impeded the work. 
Other English travellers arrived in Athens; and a dispute arose, 
fomented by the feuds and jealousies of rival artists and opposite 
parties in politics, both as to the nature of the inscription, and the 
persons who should be allowed to accomplish the work. At length, it 
is said, that, owing to the exertions of Lord Byron, and another 
most enterprising traveller, John Fiott Lee, LL.D. of St. John's Col- 
lege, Cambridge, the stone has been laid ; and the following beautiful 
Epitaph, composed by Mr. Wnlpole in 1805, has been inscribed thereon. 
ESSsi; tv QQipivtHri' parti* "Setfinf ir 
"Av&, xec! ffl vtav VLauff 1^/X ( 
'AXA ptottv ret ffufta, <ro yt\!itt u.f/.Q 
rii i^/u^iv o$(>ivn>; aitrtif 
"t ft ^/X<M, <p/X a;, X.O.TO. 
Su y of^iuf icai ngirvcv i%ti* TOUT \atti, 'A0HNAIX 
"Us fu, Bgirttnos 'iui, xitffiat it 
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