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l\iQ Appendix to this Section. It relates to a frag- 
ment of Nicetas the Choniate, which is not to be 
found in any of the printed editions of that 
historian. The original is preserved in a Manu- 
script belonging to the Bodleian Library at Oxford. 
It is mentioned by Mr. Harris, in his " Philo- 
logical Inquiries %" and was first published by 
Banduri, in his Imperium Orient ale ; afterwards 
by Fabricius, in his Bihliotheca; but, owing to the 
extreme difficulty of comprehending the sense of 
the author, no correct version of it had appeared. 
The task of rendering this fragment intelligible 
was kindly undertaken by Mr. Browne; and as it 
mainly relates to former observations, respect- 
ing the real perpetrators of the ravages com- 
mitted among the Fine Arts in Constantinople, 
it is now printed, with Mr. Browne's valuable 
Notes, at the end of this Section. To John 
Gw ALTER Pa LAI RET, Esq. of Reading, the 
author is further indebted, for a revision 
of the following pages, after they had issued 
from the press, and were ready for publica- 
tion. To mention other obligations, were only 
to repeat former acknowledgments; but he 
will not close this Preface without expressing 
his thanks to Richard Payne Knight, Esq.; 
(4) Philohg. Iruj. Chap. V. vol. H. p. 301. Land. 1781. 
