Ori'rbuil of the Ionic f'oiule, Iron an Aihenian T<Tr<i-ccttn t'lisr. 
PRE FAC E 
TO THE 
THIRD AND LAST SECTION OF PART II, 
^1. 
In publishing all that remains to complete the 
Secoxd Part of these Travels, the author has 
the satisfaction of making some addition to his 
former remarks, upon certain antiquities m hich 
appear to him likely to illustrate, in a very 
remarkable manner, the customs, and the reli- 
lon, and the language of antient Greece. 
Ever since the first notice of the characters 
of the Greek alphabet upon the terra-col ta vases, 
found ill the sepulchres of the South of Jiah/y 
decided the fact of their Hellenic origin, a hope 
