Xii P R E F A C E .
I t may be proper to mention here, that Mr. R e-
vett had given fatisfaCtory evidence of his abilities
as an Architect in a Work entitled Ruins of A thens ;
which it will pleafe the lovers of antient elegance to
know is ftill carrying on by his companion and fellow-
labourer Mr. Stuart. Mr. Pars, a young Painter,
was recommended by his promiling talents; and jufti-
fied the hopes conceived of him. He has lately pub-
lilhed a Set of Views in Switzerland, being part of a
Collection made for the Right Honourable Lord Vif-
count Palmerston ; and is now preparing to ftudy
at Rome with a ftipend from the Society of D i let t
a n t i .
T h e diligence of thefe Gentlemen was manifefted
in a large number of Plans, Views, and Drawings,
now in the poffeffion of the Society; many of them,
taken in the Tour related in the enfuing Volume;,
and the remainder in Greece, particularly at Athens,
where we refided feveral Months, and where I made a
very choice Collection of antient Marbles, now like-
wife in the pofieffion of the Society.
S oon after our return the Society generoufly ordered,
that a Specimen of thefe labours fhould be engraved
and printed at their expenfe ; and to this
Work, which they permitted to be publifhed, entitled
I O N I A N A N T I Q V I TI E S, the Reader is
fometimes referred in the following Volume. The
Preface was written by the late excellent Mf. Wood,
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the Editor of the Ruins of Palmyra and Balbec, who
alfo drew up our InftruCtions; the Account of the
Architecture by Mr. R e v e t t , and the hiftorical
part by the Relater. The remaining Views have been
finifhed by Mr. Pars ; and Mr. R evett is employed
by the Society to complete the Drawings of
Architecture.
T h e other Materials were a Book of Infcriptions
and a Journal of our Tour, which the Society were
pleafed to beftow on me, to be examined at my leifure
and publifhed. The Infcriptions, many of which are
uncommonly curious and antient, have been lately
printed in a feparate Volume ; it having been judged
expedient to detach them from the Journal. Such of
them as are connected with the following Work will
be eafily found by the learned Reader, in that Collection,
to which he is here referred.
T he: Journal confiding of two parts, one of
which relates to Asia Minor, the other to Greece,,
the former is now offered to the Public ; and, if favourably
received, will be followed by,the remaining
Volume. In this, no labour‘has been fpared ; the
Geography of the Country is improved ; many mif-
takes are rectified,; and difficulties obviated or removed.
T he Writer is aware, that he may be afked by
the more curious Reader,, on what foundation he has
mentioned