OF PART THE SECOND. xvii 
Defile of Tempe ', the exact locality of that 
celebrated pass can never again become a 
subject of dispute. 
With regard to subjects oi Natural History, 
such as Botany and Mineralogy, the author has 
kept these, as much as possible, from inter- 
rupting his narrative, where it related either 
to statistical or to classical information. But as it 
is important to mark the situation of newly- 
discovered and non-descript plants, he has intro- 
duced the 7iew species only, as they happened to 
occur, in the Notes; always accompanying their 
insertion with a description of their discrimina- 
tive characters, as in former instances ; — an 
entire List of all the Plants found during these 
travels in Greece, Egypt, and the Holy Land, 
being added in the appendix to this Section. His 
miner alozical remarks would have been more 
ample, had the appearance of simple minerals 
been more frequent ; but it is chiefly in a geo- 
logical view that there is any thing yet worthy 
of observation in the Levant; and even to the 
o-eolosist, the eastern shores of the Mediterra- 
nean, and those of the Archipelago, exhibit little 
variety. The mountains are so uniformly of 
(1) See Chaji.IX. of tliij Volume. 
