xvi PREFACE TO THIRD SECTION 
characters, as much information respecting their 
antiquity as it was possible to afford ; — for by 
attention to such circumstances, more intelli- 
gence is frequently conveyed by a few letters, 
than by whole pages of dissertation. 
In the examination of this Last Section of 
Part the Second, the Reader will find many 
things unnoticed by former travellers ; although 
some of the discoveries made by the author 
have found their way into other publications, 
without any notice of the person from whom 
they were originally derived. Owing to the 
unavoidable delay that has attended the publi- 
cation of this part of his work, it was natural to 
expect that this would happen : having never 
withheld what he knew, when applied to for 
information respecting the country, he may 
attribute to his own disregard of anticipation 
any use that subsequent travellers have made 
of his observations. Before he visited Greece, 
the sites of several places, famous in antiquity, 
were as much unknown as many that still 
remain to be pointed out. He succeeded in 
ascertaining some of them for the first time; 
for example, the cities of Tithorea and 
Plat^ea; the Corycian Cave, near Delphi, &c.: 
and by his discovery of an Inscription in the 
