The ancient and classical names have been everywhere restored by law to the principal localities of Greece; and, in accordance with most recent writers of authority, the Editor has made use of them, except where to have done so would appear affected or pedantic. It is impossible to lay down any uniform rule on this subject. "With regard to foreign proper names," it has been observed, "our English orthography, perhaps to show foreigners that we do not live under the despotism of an Academy, is confessedly a mass of anomalies; otherwise it would be remarkable that we should have adopted the French names for so many places in Italy, and the Italian names for so many places in Greece. With regard to Italy, the practice is now too inveterate for cure; and we shall probably always continue to speak of Naples, Rome, Turin, and Milan, instead of the sonorous Napoli, Roma, Torino, and Milano of their inhabitants. But with regard to Greece, we are gradually coming back to the names dear to us from a thousand memories;-to use once more, for instance, the time-honoured appellations of Eubœa, Sunium, Cythera, Leucadia, and Crete, instead of the new-fangled Genoese or Venetian aliases of Negropont, Colonna, Cerigo, Santa Maura, and Candia." Bishop Thirlwall has made some important remarks, in the Preface to his History of Greece, on the difficulties with which a writer has to contend in this respect. "As to the mode of writing Greek names in English, there is no established rule or usage of sufficient authority to direct him in all cases, and he has therefore been left to follow his own discretion. Some readers, perhaps, will think that he has abused this liberty, and will complain that he has not observed a strict uniformity. His own taste would have inclined him to prefer the English to the Latin forms of Greek names and words in every instance. But as the contrary practice is the more general, and most persons seem to think that the other ought to be confined to terms which have become familiar and naturalized in our language, he has not ventured to apply his principle with rigid consistency, where the reader's eye would perhaps have been hurt by it, but has suffered anomaly to reign in this as in the other department of orthography. He would not fear much severity of censure, if those only should condemn him who have tried the experiment themselves, or can point out the example of any writer who has given universal satisfaction in this respect.” G. F. B. GENERAL INTRODUCTION. PAGB 1 4 c. Requisites before Starting; Luggage, Clothes, Presents, Letters of Introduction, Money, Passports, &c. d. Climate, and Seasons for Travelling e. Maxims and Rules for the Preservation of Health, Malaria, Qua- m. Sketch of the Present Condition of the Greek Church n. Observations on the Modern Greek Language o. Character, Manners, and Customs of the Inhabitants of Greece, and |