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... Asia Minor thoroughly for remnants of antiquity ( as well as of the Seven Churches of Asia , which occasioned many melancholy reflections ) . At least as important were the expeditions of the Society of Dilettanti in the second half of ...
... Asia Minor thoroughly for remnants of antiquity ( as well as of the Seven Churches of Asia , which occasioned many melancholy reflections ) . At least as important were the expeditions of the Society of Dilettanti in the second half of ...
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... Asia Minor is a less satisfactory production than the nine fat volumes on the topography of Greece on which his fame rests . Some sentences from his preface give a good sense of the apprehensions with which a traveller whose interests ...
... Asia Minor is a less satisfactory production than the nine fat volumes on the topography of Greece on which his fame rests . Some sentences from his preface give a good sense of the apprehensions with which a traveller whose interests ...
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... Asia and Africa , translated by J. von Hammer ( 1834-50 ) W.J. Hamilton , Researches in Asia Minor ( 1852 ) William Lithgow , The Rare Adventures and Painefull Peregrinations ( 1632 ; last reprinted 1906 ) Parastaseis Syntomoi Chronikai ...
... Asia and Africa , translated by J. von Hammer ( 1834-50 ) W.J. Hamilton , Researches in Asia Minor ( 1852 ) William Lithgow , The Rare Adventures and Painefull Peregrinations ( 1632 ; last reprinted 1906 ) Parastaseis Syntomoi Chronikai ...
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