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8 ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE.
" repaid by the discovery of many valuable works of art," had
they been prosecuted before the lamentable destruction of
later years.
Hunt was succeeded by Von Richter, whose interesting
sketch, valuable especially in its description of the walls, was
published seven years after, in a book which is the best monu-
ment to one who found an untimely grave while in the midst
of his Oriental investigations. Von Richter visited Assos in
June, 1816. It was upon this journey that he caught the
fever which left him scarcely time to relate his observations
in his journal, published by Ebers.1
Philip Barker Webb's studies upon the Trojan Plain were
extended to Assos, and were first printed in Italian, in the
"Biblioteca Acerbi," in the volumes for June and July, 1821.2
It was through him that attention was first called to the inter-
esting geological character of this volcanic region.
At a later date the vicinity was explored and described
from a scientific point of view by the eminent Russian geog-
rapher Tchihatcheff,3 whose routes upon the map, given to
illustrate his itinerary, show him to have visited Assos in
1847 and 1849. I' is greatly to be regretted that the fourth
part of Tchihatcheff's great work, which was to be devoted to
the statistics, politics, and archaeology of the country, should
never have appeared. His most interesting results, if not
wholly lost, have thus been too greatly delayed to be of full
service to science.
1 Otto Friedrich von Richter. Wallfahrten im Morgenlande. Aus seintn
Tagebuchern und Briefen dargestellt von Johann Philip Gustav Ebers. Berlin.
1822.
2 Better known in a later French edition: Topographic de la Troade. Paris.
1844. Webb complains, in the preface to the republication, that the studies had
not attracted due attention in their original form. They had meanwhile been
translated into German; but this work does not seem to have appeared in a large
edition, as it is rare and little known, notwithstanding its importance.
3 A sie Minettre, description physique, statistique et archeologique de cette contrie.
Par Pierre de Tchihatcheff. Paris. 1S53-1869.
" repaid by the discovery of many valuable works of art," had
they been prosecuted before the lamentable destruction of
later years.
Hunt was succeeded by Von Richter, whose interesting
sketch, valuable especially in its description of the walls, was
published seven years after, in a book which is the best monu-
ment to one who found an untimely grave while in the midst
of his Oriental investigations. Von Richter visited Assos in
June, 1816. It was upon this journey that he caught the
fever which left him scarcely time to relate his observations
in his journal, published by Ebers.1
Philip Barker Webb's studies upon the Trojan Plain were
extended to Assos, and were first printed in Italian, in the
"Biblioteca Acerbi," in the volumes for June and July, 1821.2
It was through him that attention was first called to the inter-
esting geological character of this volcanic region.
At a later date the vicinity was explored and described
from a scientific point of view by the eminent Russian geog-
rapher Tchihatcheff,3 whose routes upon the map, given to
illustrate his itinerary, show him to have visited Assos in
1847 and 1849. I' is greatly to be regretted that the fourth
part of Tchihatcheff's great work, which was to be devoted to
the statistics, politics, and archaeology of the country, should
never have appeared. His most interesting results, if not
wholly lost, have thus been too greatly delayed to be of full
service to science.
1 Otto Friedrich von Richter. Wallfahrten im Morgenlande. Aus seintn
Tagebuchern und Briefen dargestellt von Johann Philip Gustav Ebers. Berlin.
1822.
2 Better known in a later French edition: Topographic de la Troade. Paris.
1844. Webb complains, in the preface to the republication, that the studies had
not attracted due attention in their original form. They had meanwhile been
translated into German; but this work does not seem to have appeared in a large
edition, as it is rare and little known, notwithstanding its importance.
3 A sie Minettre, description physique, statistique et archeologique de cette contrie.
Par Pierre de Tchihatcheff. Paris. 1S53-1869.