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INTRODUCTION.
The Society of Dilettanti being convinced by a former survey of the shores of
Asia Minor made, at their expense, with the view of searching for the remains
of ancient architecture, that much of that interesting quarter of the globe con-
tained monuments of antiquity hitherto unnoticed or imperfectly described, had
long contemplated a second mission, provided with more ample means and
more extensive powers. Accordingly, in October of the year 1812, Mr., now
Sir William, Gell, accompanied by two architects, Mr. John Peter Gandy and
Mr. Francis Bedford, embarked for the Mediterranean, having received the
necessary instructions for the mode of their proceeding.
The result of their researches in Attica has been made known by the splendid
work which was published from the drawings transmitted to the Society. In
the present work, and in another now in progress, it is proposed to give to the
INTRODUCTION.
The Society of Dilettanti being convinced by a former survey of the shores of
Asia Minor made, at their expense, with the view of searching for the remains
of ancient architecture, that much of that interesting quarter of the globe con-
tained monuments of antiquity hitherto unnoticed or imperfectly described, had
long contemplated a second mission, provided with more ample means and
more extensive powers. Accordingly, in October of the year 1812, Mr., now
Sir William, Gell, accompanied by two architects, Mr. John Peter Gandy and
Mr. Francis Bedford, embarked for the Mediterranean, having received the
necessary instructions for the mode of their proceeding.
The result of their researches in Attica has been made known by the splendid
work which was published from the drawings transmitted to the Society. In
the present work, and in another now in progress, it is proposed to give to the