273.  Porter’s Observations on the Religion, Laws, Government, and Manners of the Turks. 1768. 2 vols. 12mo.—­Sir James Porter was British ambassador at the Porte; his work is faithful and accurate, and is chiefly illustrative of the political state, manners, and habits of the Turks.

274.  Eton’s Survey of the Turkish Empire. 1801. 8vo.—­This work is divided into four parts:  government, finances, religion, arts, manners, commerce, and population; state of the provinces, especially Greece; causes of the decline of Turkey; and British commerce with Turkey.  As it is the result of personal observation, and of excellent opportunities, it falls within our notice.  Many of the opinions, however, and some of the statements of the author, have been controverted, particularly by Thornton in his Present State of Turkey. 2 vols. 8vo. 1809.  In a note to the preface, Mr. Eton enumerates the best authors who have written on Turkey.

275.  History of the Russian Embassy to Constantinople.  By M. Reimers, Secretary to the Embassy, 1804. 3 vols. 4to.—­This work is translated from the German.  Though the title in its original language would lead the reader to suppose that it principally related to the Russian provinces traversed by the embassy on its going and return, this is not the case:  the Turkish empire, and chiefly Constantinople, form the most extensive and important division of these volumes; in all that relates to the Turks there is much curious information; the work is also interesting from the picture it exhibits of the manner in which the embassy, consisting of a caravan of 650 persons, travelled.  They were six months in going from one capital to the other.

276.  Tour in 1795-6 through the Crimea.  By Maria Guthrie. 1800. 2 vols. 4to.—­This work contains a lively description of the various tribes that inhabit the Crimea; their manners, institutions, and political state; the antiquities, monuments, and natural history, and remarks on the migrations of the Asiatic tribes.  That part of the work which relates to antiquities was written by her husband, Dr. Guthrie.

277.  Walpole’s Memoirs relative to European and Asiatic Turkey.  Edited from MS. journals.

278.  Travels in various Countries of the East, being a Continuation of the Memoirs. 2 vols. 4to. 1817 and 1820.—­The information in these volumes is very various, classical, antiquarian, and statistical:  on natural history, manners, religion, politics; and most of it valuable.

279.  Wheeler and Spon’s Travels into Greece, 1681. fol—­This work relates chiefly to the antiquities of Greece and Asia Minor, and is valuable for its plates of them, and of medals, inscriptions, &c.

280.  A Journey into Greece, &c.  By Wheeler, 1688. fol.—­This work (which embraces, in some degree, the same countries as the former, but which takes in also Dalmatia) is also devoted to antiquities, descriptions, and medals, and bears a good character in these respects.