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accompanied us during this day's excursion, chap. 
The Archon insisted upon presenting them to ■ 
us without payment; saying, that he was under 
great obligations to Englishmen, in being pro- 
tected by their Government ; and he promised 
to send them, with his next cargoes, to Aspropiti, 
where ships were freighted for British ports ; 
to be forwarded to the University, for which 
alone we sought to obtain them : — but they 
have never arrived. Indeed a rumour prevails, 
that some more fortunate individual has since 
removed them, with other views ; yet the author 
will not terminate this part of his narrative, 
concerning what it is almost his duty to state, 
without making a last effort, by humbly entreat- 
ing their possessor, whosoever he may be, to 
dedicate those valuable relics to the general 
interests of Literature, either by depositing 
them in one of the Universities, or in the 
National Museum. 
The first inscription states, that **in the 
ARCHONSHIP OF MnASINUS, WHEN EuARES 
THE SON OF PaNTON WAS PRESIDENT OF THE 
Charitesian Games, the following were 
CONQUERORS IN THOSE GAMES." Their em- 
ployments, names, and countries, are then 
subjoined : 
