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INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL
IN
GREECE, TURKEY, RUSSIA,
AND
POLAND.
BY THE AUTHOR OF
"INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL IN EGYPT, ARABIA PETRÆA, AND THEHOLY LAND."
WITH A MAP AND ENGRAVINGS.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
SEVENTH EDITION.
NEW YORK:
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS.
329 & 331 PEARL STREET,
FRANKLIN SQUARE.
1853.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1838, by
Harper & Brothers,
in the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New York.
PREFACETOTHE FIFTH EDITION.
The fourth edition of this work was published duringthe author's absence from the city. His publishers, ina preface in his behalf, returned his acknowledgmentsto the public, and he can but respond to the acknowledgmentsthere made. He has made some alterationsin the page relating to the American phil-Hellenists;and for the rest, he concludes as in the preface to hisfirst edition.
The author has been induced by his publishers toput forth his "Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey,Russia, and Poland." In point of time they precedehis tour in Egypt, Arabia Petræa, and the Holy Land.The countries which form the subject of the followingpages perhaps do not, in themselves, possess the sameinterest with those in his first work; but the author hasreason to believe that part of his route, particularly fromthe Black Sea to the Baltic, through the interior ofRussia, and from St. Petersburgh through the interiorof Poland to Warsaw and Cracow, is comparativelynew to most of his countrymen. As in his first ivwork,his object has been to present a picture of the every-dayscenes which occur to the traveller in the countriesreferred to, rather than any detailed description of thecountries themselves.
New York, November, 1838.
CONTENTS
OF
THE FIRST VOLUME
Page
A Hurricane.—An Adventure.—Missilonghi.—Siege of Missilonghi.—Byron.—MarcoBozzaris.—Visit to the Widow, Daughters, and Brother ofBozzaris.—Halleck's "Marco Bozzaris."
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Choice of a Servant.—A Turnout.—An Evening Chat.—Scenery of theRoad.—Lepanto.—A projected Visit.—Change of Purpose.—Padras.—Vostitza.—Varietyand Magnificence of Scenery.
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