NOTE.

Note.—After nearly a year spent in learning the principles and practice of surveying, I went to Greece in the winter of 1892–93, and made

  1. A survey of the field of Platæa;
  2. A survey of the town of Platæa;
  3. A survey of the field of Leuctra.

I also examined

  1. The western passes of the Kithæron range;
  2. The roads leading to them from Attica by way of Eleusis and Phyle respectively;
  3. The great route from Thebes northward, west of Kopais, as far as Lebadeia and Orchomenos.

In the summer of 1895 I revisited Greece.

During that visit I did the following work:⁠—

  1. A survey of Pylos and Sphakteria;
  2. An examination of the great military route from Corinth to Argos, and from Argos, by way of Hysiæ, to Tegea;
  3. An examination of the military ways from the Arcadian plain into the Eurotas valley;
  4. I also followed and examined the great route from the Arcadian plain to Megalopolis, and thence to the Messenian plain;
  5. An examination of the site of Ithome.

In the recent summer of 1899 I did further work abroad in reference to Greek as well as Roman history. The Greek portion consisted of:⁠—

  1. A visit to the site of and museums of Carthage, with a view to ascertaining the traceable effects of Greek trade and Greek influence in the Phœnician city;
  2. A detailed examination, lasting ten days, of the region and site of Syracuse;
  3. An examination of the field of Marathon, which I had previously visited, though under adverse circumstances of weather, in January, 1893;
  4. A very careful examination of Salamis strait;
  5. A voyage up the Euripus, and such examination of the strait at Artemisium as was necessary;
  6. A survey of the pass of Thermopylæ;
  7. A detailed examination of the path of the Anopæa;
  8. An examination of the Asopos ravine and the site and neighbourhood of Heraklea Trachinia;
  9. An examination of the route southward from Thermopylæ, through the Dorian plain, past Kytinion and Amphissa to Delphi;
  10. A second examination of Platæa and the passes of Kithæron.

Other parts of Greece known to me, though not visited with the intention of, or, it may be, under circumstances permitting, historical inquiry are:⁠—

  1. Thessaly, going
    1. (a) From Volo to Thaumaki, viâ Pharsalos;
    2. (b) From Volo to Kalabaka (Æginion) and the pass of Lakmon;
    3. (c) From Volo to Tempe, viâ Larissa;
  2. The great route from Delphi to Lebadeia by the Schiste;
  3. The route up the west coast of Peloponnese from Pylos, through Triphylia and Elis to Patras;
  4. The neighbourhood of Missolonghi;
  5. Corfu and Thera (Santorin).