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PREFACE.
I spent the spring and summer of the year 1833
in the Ionian Islands, Albania, and Greece; its autumn
in some of the north-western parts of Asia Minor
and at Constantinople; and the following months of
December and January at Malta.
Before I left England, towards the end of 1832,
the Lords of the Admiralty had given an official order
to Captain Copeland, R.N. who was likely to be en-
gaged, the following spring, in surveying the Asiatic
coast, between the Dardanelles and Mytilene, to render
me every assistance in his power, consistent with the
due progress of the Survey, in my travels and re-
searches.
Captain Beaufort, Hydrographer to the Admiralty,
at whose instance the order of the Board was given,
was anxious to make the Survey in some way subser-
vient to the advancement of our knowledge of ancient
I spent the spring and summer of the year 1833
in the Ionian Islands, Albania, and Greece; its autumn
in some of the north-western parts of Asia Minor
and at Constantinople; and the following months of
December and January at Malta.
Before I left England, towards the end of 1832,
the Lords of the Admiralty had given an official order
to Captain Copeland, R.N. who was likely to be en-
gaged, the following spring, in surveying the Asiatic
coast, between the Dardanelles and Mytilene, to render
me every assistance in his power, consistent with the
due progress of the Survey, in my travels and re-
searches.
Captain Beaufort, Hydrographer to the Admiralty,
at whose instance the order of the Board was given,
was anxious to make the Survey in some way subser-
vient to the advancement of our knowledge of ancient