by D'Anville
Claustra may be the outlet of that valley called Kleisoura,
which has a corresponding signification.

"The city of Tiryns is also placed in two different positions,
once by its Greek name, and again as Tirynthus. The mistake
between the islands of Sphaeria and Calaura has been noticed in
page 135. The Pontinus, which D'Anville represents as a river,
and the Erasinus are equally ill placed in his map. There was
a place called Creopolis, somewhere toward Cynouria; but its
situation is not easily fixed. The ports called Bucephalium
and Piraeus seem to have been nothing more than little bays in
the country between Corinth and Epidaurus. The town called
Athenae, in Cynouria, by Pausanias, is called Anthena by
_Thucydides_, book 5. 41.

"In general, the map of D'Anville will be found more accurate
than those which have been published since his time; indeed
the mistakes of that geographer are in general such as could
not be avoided without visiting the country. Two errors of
D'Anville may be mentioned, lest the opportunity of publishing
the itinerary of Arcadia should never occur. The first is,
that the rivers Malaetas and Mylaon, near Methydrium, are
represented as running toward the south, whereas they flow
northwards to the Ladon; and the second is, that the Aroanius,
which falls into the Erymanthus at Psophis, is represented as
flowing from the lake of Pheneos; a mistake which arises from
the ignorance of the ancients themselves who have written on
the subject. The fact is that the Ladon receives the waters of
the lakes of Orchomenos and Pheneos: but the Aroanius rises at
a spot not two hours distant from Psophis."

In furtherance of our principal object in this critique, we have only
to add a wish that some of our Grecian tourists, among the fresh
articles of information concerning Greece which they have lately
imported, would turn their minds to the language of the country. So
strikingly similar to the ancient Greek is the modern Romaic as a
written language, and so dissimilar in sound, that even a few general
rules concerning pronunciation would be of most extensive use.

PARLIAMENTARY SPEECHES.

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DEBATE ON THE FRAME-WORK BILL, IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS, FEBRUARY 27, 1812.

The order of the day for the second reading of this Bill being read,