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Title: A Journey through Albania, and other provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia, to Constantinople, during the years 1809 and 1810
Year: 1813 (1810s)
Authors: Broughton, John Cam Hobhouse, Baron, 1786-1869
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Publisher: London, Printed for James Cawthorn, Cockspur Street and sold by Sharpe and Hailes, Piccadilly Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh and N. Mahon, Dublin
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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■ &&&&&£ &>$^Y:^-y LETTER XXXIX 691 celebrated objects which, on whatever foundation, were identified invery early ages with the scenes of the Iliad. If the country bor-dering on these famous straits does not correspond with the de-scriptions of the poet, it may be found, perhaps, to agree withthose of the geographer; and with this resemblance a prudenttraveller should, according to my humble judgment, be content,without attempting to find those evident vestiges of the Trojanwar, which all investigation of the ancients was so utterly unableto discover, that the words of the poet himself were quoted toprove that some of them, as the rampart of the Greeks, hadperhaps never existed, and that others, amongst which wasreckoned Troy itself, had been destroyed by the event to whichthey owed their celebrity. Plutarch informs us, that Alexander the Great performed sa-crifices at Ilium*; and Arrian adds, that he carried away fromthe place some arms which were said

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