A Journey through Albania, and other provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia, to Constantinople, during the years 1809 and 1810 . world, and which the ingenuity of our own age has illustrated bydiscoveries so singular, that whether fanciful or not, they must in-crease the interest of visiting these celebrated regions. For some findit most agreeably congenial with all their early prepossessions, tocredit the conjectures of those who recognize on this spot every ves-tige of the poetic landscape ; whilst others experience not a littlesatisfaction in detecting the futility of former schemes, and in
A Journey through Albania, and other provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia, to Constantinople, during the years 1809 and 1810 . world, and which the ingenuity of our own age has illustrated bydiscoveries so singular, that whether fanciful or not, they must in-crease the interest of visiting these celebrated regions. For some findit most agreeably congenial with all their early prepossessions, tocredit the conjectures of those who recognize on this spot every ves-tige of the poetic landscape ; whilst others experience not a littlesatisfaction in detecting the futility of former schemes, and in fur-nishing themselves with arguments in favour either of more pro-bable arrangements, or of a general scepticism respecting thewhole Homeric topography. We may expect to find the account given by Strabo of thispart of Asia, equally correct with the other descriptions ofthat invaluable writer; and we may at least hope to see hisplain of Troy, with the Simois and Scamander, the stations ofAchilles and Ajax, the harbour of the Greeks, and many of those Aj^^^ksS ^g^gpSjt^ b&$,$&8!!fS ^U&iti&tty ^^H ^^^^^H mmm.
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