andbook for
Greece_, p. 319).]

[205] {168} ["Don Battista Lusieri, better known as Don Tita," was born
at Naples. He followed Sir William Hamilton "to Constantinople, in 1799,
whence he removed to Athens." "It may be said of Lusieri, as of Claude
Lorraine, 'If he be not the _poet_, he is the historian of
nature.'"--_Travels, etc_., by E. D. Clarke, 1810-1823, Part II. sect.
ii. p. 469, note. See, too, _Poetical Works_, 1898, i. 455.]

[206] ["Mirandum in modum (canes venaticos diceres) ita odorabantur
omnia et pervestigabant, ut, ubi quidque esset, aliqua ratione
invenirent" (Cicero, _In Verrem_, Act. II. lib. iv. 13). Verres had two
_finders_: Tlepolemus a worker in wax, and Hiero a painter. (See
_Introduction to The Curse of Minerva: Poems_, 1898, i. 455.)]

[207] [M. Fauvel was born in Burgundy, circ. 1754. In 1787 he was
attached to the suite of the Count Choiseul-Gouffier, French Ambassador
at Constantinople, and is said to have prepared designs and
illustrations for his patron's _Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece_, vol. i.
1787, vol. ii. 1809. He settled at Athens, and was made vice-consul by
the French Government. In his old age, after more than forty years'
service at Athens, he removed finally to Smyrna, where he was appointed
consul-general.--_Biographic des Contemporains_ (Rabbe), 1834, art.
"(N.) Fauvel."]

[208] {169} In all Attica, if we except Athens itself and Marathon,
there is no scene more interesting than Cape Colonna.[Sec.1] To the
antiquary and artist, sixteen columns are an inexhaustible source of
observation and design; to the philosopher, the supposed scene of some
of Plato's conversations will not be unwelcome; and the traveller will
be struck with the beauty of the prospect over "Isles that crown the
AEgean deep:" but, for an Englishman, Colonna has yet an additional
interest, as the actual spot of Falconer's[Sec.2] shipwreck. Pallas and
Plato are forgotten in the recollection of Falconer and Campbell:--

"Here in the dead of night, by Lonna's steep,[Sec.3]
The seaman's cry was heard along the deep."

This temple of Minerva may be seen at sea from a great distance. In two
journeys which I made, and one voyage to Cape Colonna, the view from
either side, by land, was less striking than the approach from the
isles. In our second land excursion, we had a narrow escape from a party
of Mainotes, concealed in the caverns beneath. We were told afterwards,
by one of their prisoners, subseq