86 66 posed by Mr. Chandler, it is our meaning, that any "such difference of opinion should not in the least interrupt or suspend your operations, but that, at "the same time that such persons as dissent from "or disapprove of what is proposed, shall transmit "to us their reasons for such dissent, they do notwithstanding continue to pursue Mr. Chandler's plan, till they receive our further orders for their " conduct. 66 66 "Given under our hands, at the Star and Garter, "this seventeenth day of May, 1764. "CHARLEMONT. "ROB. WOOD. "THO. BRAND. "WM. FAUQUIER. "JAMES STUART. "MIDDLESEX. "LE DESPENCER. "BESSBOROUGH." It may be proper to mention here, that Mr. Revett had given satisfactory evidence of his abilities as an architect in a work entitled Ruins of Athens ; which it will please the lovers of ancient elegance to know is still carrying on by his companion and fellow-labourer Mr. Stuart. Mr. Pars, a young painter, was recommended by his promising talents; and justified the hopes conceived of him. He has lately published a set of views in Switzerland, being part of a collection made for the right honourable lord viscount Palmerston; and is now preparing to study at Rome, with a stipend from the Society of Dilettanti. The diligence of these gentlemen was manifested in a large number of plans, views, and drawings, now in the possession of the Society; many of them taken in the tour related in the ensuing volume; and the remainder in Greece, particularly at Athens, where we resided several months, and where I made a very choice collection of ancient marbles, now likewise in the possession of the Society. Soon after our return the Society generously ordered, that a specimen of these labours should be engraved and printed at their expense; and to this work, which they permitted to be published, entitled Ionian Antiquities, the reader is sometimes referred in the following volume. The preface was written by the late excellent Mr. Wood, the editor of the Ruins of Palmyra and Balbec, who also drew up our instructions; the account of the architecture by Mr. Revett; and the historical part by the relater. The remaining views have been finished by Mr. Pars; and Mr. Revett is employed by the Society to complete the drawings of architecture. The other materials were a book of inscriptions and a journal of our tour, which the Society were pleased to bestow on me, to be examined at my leisure, and published. The inscriptions, many of which are uncommonly curious and ancient, have been lately printed in a separate volume, it having been judged expedient to detach them from the journal. Such of them as are connected with the following work will be easily found by the learned reader in that collection, to which he is here referred. The journal consisting of two parts, one of which relates to Asia Minor, the other to Greece, the former is now offered to the public; and, if favourably received, will be followed by the remaining volume. In this, no labour has been spared; the geography of the country is improved; many mistakes are rectified; and difficulties obviated or removed. The writer is aware, that he may be asked by the more curious reader, on what foundation he has mentioned certain barrows now extant, as those of Achilles and other classical heroes; as also his reason for supposing Niobe to be still visible on mount Sipylus. The essays advertised at the end of this volume, are partly intended to satisfy any such inquirer. OXFORD, 1775. R. C.. CONTENTS. VOYAGE to the strait of Gibraltar-Custom of the sailors-Our Sail from Leghorn-In the Archipelago-Ruin of an ancient Turks described-Reception on shore-Dinner-The town- We pass down the Hellespont-Land in the Cherronese of Sail to Tenedos-Situation and modern history of the island- |