Excerpt from Travels and Discoveries in the Levant, Vol. 1 of 2 IN February, 1852, having been recently appointed by Lord Granville to the vice-consulship of Mytilene, I visited the Levant for the first time. In receiving this appointment from the Foreign Office, I was, at the same time, instructed to use such Opportunities as presented themselves for the acqui sitiou of antiquities for the British Museum, and with this Object I was authorized to extend my researches beyond the limits of my vice-consulship a small annual allowance being granted me for travelling expenses. In the volume now Offered to the public I have recorded the researches and Observations during a residence in the Levant of seven years, from 1852 to 1859. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.