Geography of the Peloponnese.

1. The annexed Map of the Peloponnese has been taken from one of larger dimensions, in which, after the astronomical bearings had been laid down, the Itinerary of every modern traveller with which I was acquainted, particularly Gell's Itinerary of Morea, besides the routes of Chandler, Dodwell, Pouqueville, Holland, Morrit, Sibthorpe, and Turner, were entered. I had also when at Paris an opportunity of making extracts and copying some plans, not indeed of any great value, from the manuscript journal of the younger Fourmont, which, though frequently much confused, still contained useful information concerning several districts. Having adopted the above routes as the surest basis, I next compared other maps, particularly Barbié du Bocage's Carte de la Morée publiée à Paris en 1814, and Arrowsmith's large Map of Turkey; besides these, I availed myself of the ancient Venetian Map, but the Carta della Grecia antica secondo le osservazioni di Sir W. Gell, published at Rome, cannot be considered properly as a production of this distinguished geographer. The combination of ancient and modern accounts with the state of the country thus ascertained, served as an introductory measure to our proposed object of representing the political and geographical condition of the Peloponnese during the Peloponnesian war, (vol. I. p. 225. note.) by following historical records, whenever they could be obtained.