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Chip, fo peculiarly the growth of that foil, that they could never bear trans-
planting, notwithstanding the complaifance of antiquity for her abfurdities.
As fuperftition travelled northward, me changed her garb with her country,
and the pi&urefque mixture of hill, vale, grove, and water, in Greece, gave
birth to Oreades, Dryades, and Naiades, with all the varieties of that fanciful
mythology, which only fuch a poet as Homer, in fuch a country as Greece,
could have connected into that form and fyftem, which poetry has ever fince
thought proper to adopt.
We may add, as a further confirmation of our opinion, that this fame
mythology, examined on the fpot where Homer wrote, has feveral plaufible
and confident circumftances, which are entirely local. Should health and leifure
permit us to give the public that more claffical part of our travels, through
thofe countries which are moft remarkable as the fcenes of antient fable, we
may illuftrate by fome inftances what is here only hinted at.
Having now finifhed this Second Volume, I beg leave to feparate myfelf
a moment from my fellow-traveller, to acknowledge, as editor of this work,
that I alone am accountable for the delay of it's publication.
When called from my country by other duties, my neceffary abfence re-
tarded, in fome meafure, it's progrefs. Mr. Dawkins, with the fame generous
fpirit, which had fo indefatigably furmounted the various obftacles of our
voyage, continued carefully to protect the fruits of thofe labours which he had
fo chearfully fhared: he not only attended to the accuracy of the work, by
having finifhed drawings made under his own eye by our draughtfman, from
the sketches and meafures he had taken on the fpot, but had the engravings fo
far advanced as to be now ready for the public under our joint infpedtion.
This declaration I owe in juftice both to the public and my friend: for
whatever, in the ftate of their accounts, the balance may be in his favour, I
muft not ungratefully conceal how much I am a debtor to both.
ROBERT WOOD,
EXPLANATION
Chip, fo peculiarly the growth of that foil, that they could never bear trans-
planting, notwithstanding the complaifance of antiquity for her abfurdities.
As fuperftition travelled northward, me changed her garb with her country,
and the pi&urefque mixture of hill, vale, grove, and water, in Greece, gave
birth to Oreades, Dryades, and Naiades, with all the varieties of that fanciful
mythology, which only fuch a poet as Homer, in fuch a country as Greece,
could have connected into that form and fyftem, which poetry has ever fince
thought proper to adopt.
We may add, as a further confirmation of our opinion, that this fame
mythology, examined on the fpot where Homer wrote, has feveral plaufible
and confident circumftances, which are entirely local. Should health and leifure
permit us to give the public that more claffical part of our travels, through
thofe countries which are moft remarkable as the fcenes of antient fable, we
may illuftrate by fome inftances what is here only hinted at.
Having now finifhed this Second Volume, I beg leave to feparate myfelf
a moment from my fellow-traveller, to acknowledge, as editor of this work,
that I alone am accountable for the delay of it's publication.
When called from my country by other duties, my neceffary abfence re-
tarded, in fome meafure, it's progrefs. Mr. Dawkins, with the fame generous
fpirit, which had fo indefatigably furmounted the various obftacles of our
voyage, continued carefully to protect the fruits of thofe labours which he had
fo chearfully fhared: he not only attended to the accuracy of the work, by
having finifhed drawings made under his own eye by our draughtfman, from
the sketches and meafures he had taken on the fpot, but had the engravings fo
far advanced as to be now ready for the public under our joint infpedtion.
This declaration I owe in juftice both to the public and my friend: for
whatever, in the ftate of their accounts, the balance may be in his favour, I
muft not ungratefully conceal how much I am a debtor to both.
ROBERT WOOD,
EXPLANATION