1652. 
Cerigo, the antiquities of which he de- 
sferibes. Stephanopoli thence repaired to 
» Potamos, in the neighbourhood of which 
» be difcovered- an antient arcade with a 
Greek infcription ; entered the wood, for- 
emerly. facred to the Goddefs of Love ; 
~anid) breakfaftéd'on a ftone’ bearing a re- 
 prefentation of Venus, in ‘the’ aét of 
crowning two young lovers. 
LA few: hears fail, brought him to the 
port of Marathonice, where he landed, 
-and -was hofpitably received by the Mai- 
‘motes, to one Of whonrhe afirmed, ** that 
Bonaparte, after fourteen battles, nd as 
many victories, was at that moment ne- 
‘gotiating peace under the walls of Vien- 
ma!” Heat the fame time prefented a let- 
‘ter toone of the Beys, addreffed ‘©to the 
ehiefof the’ free people of Mfainotts ;”’ 
but’ as this perfonage did not unde rftand 
the French language, Dimo immediately 
tranflated it into modern Greek, and it 
was found to contain many hanefome 
compliments tothe defeendants oftheS Spar- 
tans. After vifiting all the antiquities in 
the neighbourhood, : and copying every in- 
fcription, worthy of being particularized, 
Stephanopoli inquired into the ftate of 
morals, and found that thefe confifted 
defs..in precepts than examples : in the 
courfe of his -refearches, he difcovered a 
kind of moral and political catechifm, 
which, in point ‘of Jaconifm at leaft, is 
avortby of the ancient Spartans. Here 
follows a tranflation of a fewof the quef- 
tions with theiranfwers : 
The Majer. 
What are you ? 
fhe Difeiple, 
A free creature. 
The Mafter. 
On what do you found your liberty : > 
The Difcipie. 
On the remembrance of my anceftors. 
The Mofter. 
Who. were your a Hee ? 
‘The Difciple. 
The Spartans. 
The Mafier. 
The Spartans were not free, for they 
had a king for their mafter, and Helots for 
their flaves. — - 
The Difciple: 
The kings of Sparta. were only fimple 
generals, who might have been degraded 
in confequence of the moft trifling fufpicion, 
and were obliged to aét conformably to the 
laws: as to the He elots, their flavery was 
not a difprace to the Spartans, but merely 
te thofe who governed them. 
Tee Mafier. 
What are the dutics of a Maimote ? 
‘Retrofpect of French Literature—Voyayes and Travele. 
The Difeiple. 
To do good to all, and harm to no one. 
DDE Mafier. 
Have ‘they no particular obligations to 
fulal > 
The Difeiple.. 
Five. The firft is, to refpeét and affift 
old age; the fecond, to love and facrifice 
every thing for cur parents; the third, to 
be flow in contracting, and faithful in ful- 
fillmg obligations; the fourth, to efteem 
married men, that we ourfelves may be 
efteemed in our turn; to regard their wives 
as inviolable, and their daughters as facred ; 
the fifth is, to preferve that liberty eich 
we have derived from our anceftors unal- 
tered, and to defend it at the per of our 
lives 
After a confiderable.ftay among the 
Mainotes, our traveller returned to Zante, 
and then vifited Corfou, whence he failed 
for Italy, and delivered all the information 
he had been able to obtain, to his patron 
General Bonaparte. 
‘¢ Voyages de la Perfe, dans Inde, & 
du Bengal en Perfe,” &c. Travels from 
Perfia to India, and from Bengal into Per- 
fia, with an Account of the Revolutions ‘of. 
Perfia, and a Hiftorical Memoir relative 
to Perfepolis. By L. LANGLES, 3 vols. 
Paris. 
The firft volume of this work centains 
an account of a journey from India to 
Mecca, by Abdoul-Kerym, a noble Kach- 
myrian in the _fervice of Nadir-Chah, bet- 
ter known in Europe by the name of Tie 
mas Koulhi Khan. This was originally 
tranflated into Englifh by Mr. Gladwin, 
and is chiefly iionie on account of the 
geographical remarks of the author, and 
the notes of. the learned Langles. The 
fecond volume includes the details of a 
journey from Perfia to India during the 
years 1442, 1443, and 1444, by A’bd- 
OQulrizaq, ambaflador from Chah-Rokh, 
fourth fon of Timour, (Tamerlane,) to 
the King of Bifnagor. This is tranflated 
from a Perfian manufcript, No. 106, ato. 
preferved in the French national library. 
The author was almoner to Chah-Rokh, _ 
and, befides the prefent, has compofed. the 
Hiftory of Tamerlane, and fome other 
works. Notwithftanding the bigotry of 
this Muffulman, this portion of . his 
writings contains much ufeful information. 
The third volume confifts of a tranfla- 
tion of Franklin’s journey from Bengal. 
In that part of it which treats of Perfepo- 
lis, Langles takes occafion to affert, that 
this once celebrated city was not deftroyed 
by Alexander, as has been ufually fup- 
pofed; he alfo gives it as his opinion, oo 
