Gell, William: The itinerary of Greece: With a commentary on Pausanias and Strabo and an account of the monuments of antiquity at present existing in that country (London, 1810)

PREFACE.

The thirst for information on the subject of those
places which have been celebrated by the Latin his-
torians, has occasioned the most diligent examination of
every part of Italy, yet the supposed difficulty of the task,
has prevented travellers from extending their researches to
the classic ground beyond the Adriatic, so that we are at
present as ignorant of Greece as of the interior of Africa.

Greece differs most essentially from other countries,
and even from Italy, in the infinite number of objects of
curiosity which it offers to the traveller; not an horn-
passes without producing some new source of reflection, and
the road at every turn presents some scene to which the
Poets or the Historians have attached interest, and this

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