untry of the ancient world. To that country, we trust, the
attention not only of our travellers, but of our legislators, will
hereafter be directed. The greatest caution will, indeed, be
required, as we have premised, in touching on so delicate a subject
as the amelioration of the possessions of an ally: but the field for
the exercise of political sagacity is wide and inviting in this
portion of the globe; and Mr. Gell, and all other writers who
interest us, however remotely, in its extraordinary _capabilities_,
deserve well of the British empire. We shall conclude by an extract
from the author's work: which, even if it fails of exciting that
general interest which we hope most earnestly it may attract, towards
its important subject, cannot, as he justly observes, "be entirely
uninteresting to the scholar;" since it is a work "which gives him a
faithful description of the remains of cities, the very existence of
which was doubtful, as they perished before the aera of authentic
history." The subjoined quotation is a good specimen of the author's
minuteness of research as a topographer; and we trust that the credit
which must accrue to him from the present performance will ensure the
completion of his Itinerary:--

"The inaccuracies of the maps of Anacharsis are in many
respects very glaring. The situation of Phlius is marked by
Strabo as surrounded by the territories of Sicyon, Argos,
Cleonae, and Stymphalus. Mr. Hawkins observed, that Phlius, the
ruins of which still exist near Agios Giorgios, lies in a
direct line between Cleonae and Stymphalus, and another from
Sicyon to Argos; so that Strabo was correct in saying that it
lay between those four towns; yet we see Phlius, in the map of
Argolis by M. Barbie du Bocage, placed ten miles to the north
of Stymphalus, contradicting both history and fact. D'Anville
is guilty of the same error.

"M. du Bocage places a town named Phlius, and by him Phlionte,
on the point of land which forms the port of Drepano: there
are not at present any ruins there. The maps of D'Anville are
generally more correct than any others where
ancient geography is concerned. A mistake occurs on the
subject of Tiryns, and a place named by him Vathia, but of
which nothing can be understood. It is possible that Vathi, or
the profound valley, may be a name sometimes used for the
valley of Barbitsa, and that the place named