Excerpt from Researches in the Highlands of Turkey, Vol. 1 of 2: Including Visits to Mounts Ida, Athos, Olympus, and Pelion, to the Mirdite Albanians, and Other Remote Tribes
The journeys, of which an account is given in these volumes, were made in the summers of 1853, 1861, and 1865. The first of these in order of time has been placed last in order of narration, as it is best suited to supplement the information given in the other two.
It has been my endeavour to compress what I have to say into a moderately narrow compass, excluding for the most part matters merely personal, together with the ordinary features of Eastern life and daily incidents of travel, with which most persons are by this time acquainted. At the same time I have discussed, to the best of my ability, the various questions-historical, antiquarian, and topographical - which such a tour naturally suggests, and have illustrated them by such information as I have been able to obtain.
Turkey is at present the least known of all the countries of Europe, yet few contain so much to reward the trouble of investigation.
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