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PRESENT EDITION. 
I HE Author gladly avails himself of the oppor- 
tunity offered by a new Edition of this part of 
his "Work, to acknowledge his obligation to a 
very celebrated traveller, John Hawkins, Esq. 
for a valuable communication, respecting La 
Guillitiere ; whose account oi Athens, published 
in Paris in 1675, the Reader will find mentioned 
in the twelfth chapter. It seems that the criti- 
cisms made by Spon upon that publication did 
not pass unregarded by the editor of La Guil- 
letieres narrative ; but that they elicited an 
answer, full of very bitter animadversion, and 
severe satire, upon Spons own work : to which 
the latter replied with even greater asperity ; 
and he endeavoured to prove that the pre- 
tended La Guilletiere was a fictitious character, 
and that no such person had ever set his foot in 
Athens; but that the account of its antiquities, 
which bears his name, was nothing more 
than a spurious publication, made from the 
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