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Excerpt from The Description of Greece, Vol. 1 of 3 Our Pausanias travelled not only through Greece, Macedonia, and Italy, but likewise through the greatest part of Asia, as far as to the Oracle of Jupiter Hammon. He says, too, of himself, that he visited Palestine, and that he saw Jordan and the Dead Sea. But though he was a prompt and ingenious declaimer, yet he was a bad rhetorician, which it seems was generally the case with the Cappadocians; and hence it is asserted in a Greek epigram, that it is easier to find a white crow, or a winged tortoise, than a good Cappadocian rhetorician. He was the author of several works besides the present, of which the reader may see a catalogue in the Bibliotheca Graaca of Fabricius, and the loss of which must be greatly regretted by every artist, philologist, and historian. 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.