OF PART THE SECOND. iii 
may be seen by reference to the account he has 
published in the former Section, and especially in 
the Eighth Chapter of the Sixth Volume, to which 
an engraving was annexed, representing the 
principal terra-cottas there described': yet few 
persons have been more zealous in their 
researches after such antiquities than he was ; 
because he had for many years looked forward 
to the contribution they might make to the taste 
and the literature of his country. Since his 
departure from Athens, some excavations, under- 
taken by the two rival artists, Lusieri and Fauvel, 
whose merits he has before noticed, began to 
realize the prospect so long and so generally 
formed. Their discoveries were followed by a 
still more extensive examination of the soil 
near Athens, conducted under the patronage of 
several persons from this country ; but by none 
more successfully than by Mr. Dodivell, by Mr. 
Graham, and by Mr. Burgon. The representa- 
tion of a fine vase belonging to Mr. Dodivell has 
been already published'; but the more im- 
portant discoveries of Mr. Graham, and of Mr. 
I Burgon oi Smyrna, as connected with the arts and 
the literature of Greece, and with a subject so 
often alluded to in these Travels, demand all the 
(1) See tlie Plate facing p. 458 of the former Volume. 
(2) See Moses's Collection &c. of Vases, Plate 3. Lond, IS] 4. 
