flections on the difference between the taste
of the Europeans and the Easterns.

LET. XLIV. _From Tunis_.--Vovage from Constantinople--the
Hellespont, and castles of Sestos and Abydos--
reflections on the story of Hero and Leander--the
burial-places of Hecuba and Achilles--antiquities--
habits of the Greek peasants--conjectures as to the
ruins of a large city--remarks on the face of the
country illustrated by reference to passages from
Homer--Troy, no remains of it existing--ruins of old
Constantinople--Latin inscriptions, and remains of
antiquity--isle of Tenedos--Mytilene--Lesbos--Scio, and
its inhabitants--promontory of Lunium the present Cape
Colonna--temple of Theseus, how destroyed present
condition of the Morea, the ancient Peloponnesus--
Candia--reflections on the contrast between ancient and
modern Greece--Trinacria--Malta--arrival at Tunis--face
of the country--manner of celebrating the Mahometan
ramadan or Lent--the natives--ruins of the aqueduct of
Carthage--description and chronological anecdotes of
the city of Tunis--ruins of Carthage.

LET. XLV. _From Genoa_.--Description of Genoa and its inhabitants
--Cizisbeis, the nature of their employment, and
occasion of their institution--the government--palaces
--paintings--remark on their fondness for the
representation of crucifixes--church of St Lawrence,
and the famous emerald plate--their churches not to be
compared with the Sancta Sophia at Constantinople.

LET. XLVI. _From Turin_.--Character of Turin, its palaces and
churches--Lady M. waits on the queen--persons of the
king and prince of Piedmont described.

LET. XLVII. _From Lyons_.--Journey from Turin to Lyons--passage over
mount Cenis--the frontier towns between Savoy and
France.

LET. XLVIII. _From Lyons_.--Reflections on the insipidity of female
visits--the inscriptions on brass tables on each side
of the town-house at Lyons--remains of antiquity--
cathedral of St John--critique on the statue of Louis
XIV.

LET. XLIX. _From Paris_