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the Archipelago, celebrated. in ancient 
hiftory. He refided five years in Athens 
alone. He alfo has traverfed Afa Mi- 
nor, making frequent excurfions to the 
réputed fite of ancient Troy, and to the 
fource of the river Simcis. 
Previous to his travels in Greece, he 
made a voyage to Egypt, where he took 
the plans of a number of antique monu- 
ments, feveral of which were hitherto 
unknown. At Grand Cairo, he colleé- 
ed feveral curiofities, At Alexandria, 
he took plans of the city, its catacombs, 
Pompey’s Pillar, and the ruins of Cano- 
pus. He meafured feveral coloffal 4- 
gures of Ifis and the Sphinx, and pro- 
cured interefting information relative to 
the Pyramids, their elevation, and de- 
figns, &c. 
‘He even had it in contemplation to 
penetrate into the interior of Africa, to 
the Temple of Jupiter Ammon, and had 
prepared for this adventurous undertak - 
ing, interpreters, guides, and camels, 
-%c.; but Choifeul-Gouther, who acted 
mm concert with him, from motives not 
known, but fuppofed to be thofe of jca- 
Joufy, prevented the execution of his 
enterprife. oe 
In thefe voyages, FaAuvEL has equal- 
‘ly exhibited the talents of a geographer, 
an antiquarian, and an artift. He has 
drawn maps of the country ot Attica, its 
iflands, &c. and traced, with great care 
and exactitude, a very minute ‘chart of 
of Athens ; wherein he hes marked, with 
a particular colour, its excezmie (limits) 
‘and its ancient monuments. 
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which, in the common maps, and ever 
in thofe of Danville, are ! r 
dom. Such are, for exam] 
gea, Megalopolis, Meffena, and Olym- 
pia. 
He has drawn a chart of the ifland’ of 
Santurin (anciently Thera] fxetched de- 
fiens of the craters of its volcanbdes 5 and 
madé fubrerrancous refcarches in Caliita, 
a city fituated in the ifland. He has 
made fimilar refearches at Delus, Naxos, 
Tos, Cimolis, Eleufis, and in the plain of 
Marathon ; and has taken plans of the 
temples of Delos, its porticos, its Nau- 
machia, and its Coloffus. 
‘Through the, medium of certain 
Turks, whofe: interefi he procured, he 
has been allowed to dig under ground, 
any where in Athens, at the foundations 
of the temples, and even of the citadel 
itfelf ; a favour till then unprecedented, 
Anfwer to Queries on We el/h Hiftory. 
He has been alfo permitted to take. all 
the requifite meafurements of thefe mo- 
numents. At Athens, he moulded and 
caft in plafter abcut 200 pedeftals af 
bas-reliefs, the preduétions of Phidias, 
which adorn the ruins of the famous 
temple of Minerva; alfo, many flatues, 
and all the precious remains of feulpture 
to be found in the-city.. He alfo mould- 
ed many details ot architeéture, the con- 
templation and ftudy of which, he judg- 
ed mjght afford fome advantage to ar-- 
tiffs. : 
The moft valuable difcovery which 
has been made by FAUVEL, is that of 
the ruins of Olympia. The learned 
Winckelman was unable to trace the 
exact pofition of this city ; he gave it as 
his opinion, however, that it abounded, 
more than any other place, with anti- 
quities of every defcription, FAUVEI, 
has been “fo fortunate as to trace the 
veltizes of its famous Hippodrome, and 
Goal, and of the 4/s,.that facred grove, 
which was fo replenifhed with ffatues 
and other monuments of the arts, that 
Paufanias informs us he was unable te 
exhibit a complete enumeration of them. 
This is the place, above all others, 
where under-ground refearches promif- 
ed to be the moft interefiing. Addi- 
tional motives recommended the mea- 
fure, at this moment, ftill more forcibly ; 
for the Turks appear to take a pleafure 
in demolifhing what has withftood the 
ravages of time. As a recent inftance 
of this barbarous fpirit, an aga lately - 
built, within® two miles of Clympia, his 
houte, out of the materials of that temple 
of “Jupiter, fo renowned througheut 
Greece, in which were facrificed fo ma- 
ny victims, previouily to the commence- 
ment of the.. Olympic Ganies. | Even 
Athens itfelf is not {pared by thé Turks, 
although its remains. attract fuch a con- 
‘tinual concourfe of foreigners. 
Your's, &c. 
GEA Nee ‘ee : “ 
UGNLETORTY, AN TIQU ARIUS. 
Deck-2. Gu7g pr. 
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To the Editor:of the Monthly Magazine. 
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anfwer to the Enquiries made lat 
month, by your correfpondent, B. re- 
fpeéting fome particulars in Welth hif- 
tory : 
wain, prince of Gaoyziex, who died jn 
the year 1169, had nineteen children. The 
names of the fons were, Reari, Cynore, 
Riryd, Merde, Eduwat, Cynan, ‘Rien, 
Be pleafed to infert the following, in 
Maelgony 
