This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1820 edition. Excerpt: ... "A More accurate description of this inland tract is ardently desired; but it is no where to be found.'-Such is the remark inscribed by the illustrious D'Anyille on that part of his map of ancient Greece which comprehends Epirus. With what avidity, then, would he not have availed himself of the various information, assembled and given to the public since his time, relative to Epirus and other highly interesting portions of the north of Greece. Greatly, indeed, are the geographer, the historian, the antiquary, indebted to the gentlemen of our own and other countries, who have, of late years, communicated to the " world the results of their learned and.adventurous personal researches, in a country so peculiarly interesting'as Greece, in the comprehensive.sense of the name. So has it happened, however, that, from particular circumstances, the author of the work from which the contents of the following pages have been extracted, has been enabled to survey a much greater portion of Epjrus and Albania, of Macedonia and Thessaly, and that with much more deliberation and much greater. j advantages than any other person, without any exception, whose name is known in the world. v Dr. Pouqueville, a corresponding m.ember of. the class of antiquities in the Royal Institute of France, was selected as one of the men of science and learning to accompany the French expedition to Egypt. On his voyage back to Europe he was captured, and long detained at J Constantinople. In 1805, after his return to France, he published " Travels in the Morea, Albania," &c, a work which gratified as it excited the public curiosity. In the autumn of the same year, Dr. P. i was appointed consul-general for France at the court, and within the territories under the authority...