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night, had so considerably reduced our stock of CHAP. 
energies before the morning, that with deep 
regret we were compelled to abandon the design 
of seeing Mantinea, Megalopolis, and Sparta, and 
to adhere to our original plan. How few are 
the travellers who have seen the interior of the 
Morea! and in that small number, where may 
we look for one who has given any intelligence 
that may be called information, respecting the 
Ruins of the cities which the country is known 
to contain 1 ? Perhaps the time is at hand when 
we shall know more of a region as easily to be 
(l) Yes! there is owe traveller, whose qualifications for this purpose 
are well known, and have been already noticed in this Work ; but 
who could never be prevailed upon to estimate the value of his own 
observations high enough to induce him to publish them. This tra- 
veller is John Hawkins, M. A. of Trinity College, Cambridge: and as- 
any thing coming from one who has the satisfaction to rank among 
bis friends, may be imputed to~ partiality, an Extract from the 
MS. Letters of Colmel Squire to his Brother may here be considered 
appropriate. " Will) Greece" (says Col. Squire} " our most learned 
scholars have hut a small acquaintance : few travellers have published 
their observations ; many events in history have been misunderstood ; 
and translators and commentators have been entirely bewildered, 
owing to their ignorance of its topography. The writers, to whom 
we refer as our best authorities, are trifling, inaccurate, and super- 
ficial. There is, however, a Gentleman in England, Mr. Hawkins, 
Brother of Sir Christopher Hawkins, a man of shrewd sagacity, 
erudition, and indefatigable exertion, who has explored every part of 
the country, and now possesses very ample means to render a signal 
service by the publication of the materials he has collected." 
Colonel Squire' $ MS. Correspondence, 
