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Excerpt from Archæologia Græca, or the Antiquities of Greece IN this edition - which the Publishers have been induced to undertake by the success of a previous attempt to render more popular Dr Adam's excellent' Summary of Roman Antiquities -much additional and valuable matter has been introduced, in the form of notes and appendices, from the writings of Heeren, Boeckh, Cramer, Leake, Mitchell, Sandford, Cardwell, Muller, and Others, and from several anonymous sources; plans and illustrations have been borrowed from Meyrick, Moses, Montfaucon, Hope, Stuart, and Revett, and other works of acknowledged merit; the style of the Author has in numerous instances been altered, and, it is hoped, improved; many of the authorities 'have been verified by a reference to the best editions of the classics; the Indices have been enlarged; and the two volumes of the original have been reduced, by the use of a smaller type, and by the omission or curtail ment of 'the'quotations with which they Were overloaded, to one cheap and portable volume. With what measure of taste and judgment these altera tions and additions have been made it is not for the Pub lishers to say. They trust that they have at least succeeded, by the reduction of the size and price of the work, in removing what have hitherto been the great obstacles to its adm'ission into many of our classical Institutions. 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 le