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MOUNT ATHOS. 
CHAP. 
I. 
Manu- 
scripts. 
after such a husbandman had quitted the field. 
From some sketches made by his artist Preaiix, 
we were enabled to judge of the scenery in the 
recesses of the mountain : it very much resem- 
bles that of Vietri (the school of Salvator Rosa) 
in the Gulph of Salernum, in Italy. To what 
fatal circumstances the loss of all this literary 
treasure may be attributed, the Public is now 
informed, by the valuable work which his bro- 
ther has edited': it is a loss the more to be 
regretted, as another century may pass away 
without giving birth to one so fitted for the task 
he had fulfilled, as was this lamented scholar. 
His life fell a sacrifice to the undertaking': in 
consequence of a fever which attended the 
accomplishment of this arduous journey, he 
died at Athens. That he made discoveries of 
an important nature relating to Greek Manu- 
(l) " Reriains of the late John Tweddell," edited by his 
brother, the Rev. Robert Tweddell, A.M. Lond. 1815. It contains a 
selection of Mr. John Tweddeli/s Letters, together with a republi- 
cation of his " Prolusiones Juveniles ;" and a body of most satisfac- 
tory evidence, respecting the extraordinary disappearance of his manu- 
script journals, drawings, &c. &c. after they had been consigned to 
the care of the British /Imhassador at Constantinople. Thus every 
doubt is done away, as to this mysterious transaction. 
(2^ " Nous venons de le perdre apr^s quatre jours d'une fi^vre 
double-tierce, fruit des fatigues excessives de son voyage." See 
J^jauvel's Letter to Mr. Neave, in " Tweddell's Remains," p. 10. 
Lond. 18J5, 
