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Title: Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833
Release Date: December 10, 2008 [eBook #27484]
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+---------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's note: | | | | Turkish names seem to be spelled generally in French, | | which was the Lingua Franca of the period. These have | | not been corrected. The correct Turkish spellings of | | some of these names are given at the end of the book. | +---------------------------------------------------------+
JOURNAL OF A VISIT TO CONSTANTINOPLE, &c. &c.
"You have nothing to do, but transcribe your little red books, if they are not rubbed out; for I conclude you have not trusted every thing to memory, which is ten times worse than a lead pencil. Half a word fixed on or near the spot, is worth a cart load of recollection."
London: Printed by A. Spottiswoode, New-Street-Square.
JOURNAL OF A VISIT TO CONSTANTINOPLE, AND SOME OF THE GREEK ISLANDS, IN THE SPRING AND SUMMER OF 1833.
Author of "The Ascent of Mont Blanc," "Sketches of Vesuvius," Etc.
[Illustration: VIEW IN THE GULF OF CORON. [p. 235.]]
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, Paternoster-Row. 1835.
On quitting Naples, for those scenes which your pen and pencil have so faithfully illustrated, I promised to fill my note book. I now offer you its contents, as a small and unworthy token of my gratitude for the long continued kindness you have shown.