Transcribed from the 1897 T. Fisher Unwin edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

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the
CITIES OF THE DAWN:

NAPLES—ATHENS—POMPEII—CONSTANTINOPLE—
SMYRNA—JAFFA—JERUSALEM—ALEXANDRIA—
CAIRO—MARSEILLES—AVIGNON—
LYONS—DIJON.

by
J. EWING RITCHIE
(‘christopher crayon’),
author of ‘crying for the light,’ ‘east anglia,’ etc., etc.

‘Ye glittering towns with wealth and splendour crown’d;
Ye fields where summer spreads profusion round;
Ye lakes whose vessels catch the busy gale;
Ye bending swains that dress the flowery vale;
For me your tributary stores combine;
Creation’s heir, the world—the world is mine.’

with thirty-one illustrations

london:
T. FISHER UNWIN,
paternoster square.
NEW YORK: G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS.
1897.

To
F. W. WARMINGTON, Esq.,
to whose practical philanthropy
many of the young people of both sexes
are indebted for happy holiday-times,
this book
is respectfully dedicated
by
THE AUTHOR