to walk by the side of the baggage-horses.  They “are certain,” he says, “of performing their engagement without grumbling.”  We apprehend that this is by no means certain:—­but Mr. Gell is perfectly right in preferring a Turk to a Greek for this purpose; and in his general recommendation to take a Janissary on the tour:  who, we may add, should be suffered to act as he pleases, since nothing is to be done by gentle means, or even by offers of money, at the places of accommodation.  A courier, to be sent on before to the place at which the traveller intends to sleep, is indispensable to comfort:  but no tourist should be misled by the author’s advice to suffer the Greeks to gratify their curiosity, in permitting them to remain for some time about him on his arrival at an inn.  They should be removed as soon as possible; for, as to the remark that “no stranger would think of intruding when a room is pre-occupied,” our informants were not so well convinced of that fact.

Though we have made the above exceptions to the accuracy of Mr. Gell’s information, we are most ready to do justice to the general utility of his directions, and can certainly concede the praise which he is desirous of obtaining,—­namely, “of having facilitated the researches of future travellers, by affording that local information which it was before impossible to obtain.”  This book, indeed, is absolutely necessary to any person who wishes to explore the Morea advantageously; and we hope that Mr. Gell will continue his Itinerary over that and over every other part of Greece.  He allows that his volume “is only calculated to become a book of reference, and not of general entertainment:”  but we do not see any reason against the compatibility of both objects in a survey of the most celebrated country of the ancient world.  To that country, we trust, the attention not only of our travellers, but of our legislators, will hereafter be directed.  The greatest caution will, indeed, be required, as we have premised, in touching on so delicate a subject as the amelioration of the possessions of an ally:  but the field for the exercise of political sagacity is wide and inviting in this portion of the globe; and Mr. Gell, and all other writers who interest us, however remotely, in its extraordinary capabilities, deserve well of the British empire.  We shall conclude by an extract from the author’s work:  which, even if it fails of exciting that general interest which we hope most earnestly it may attract, towards its important subject, cannot, as he justly observes, “be entirely uninteresting to the scholar;” since it is a work “which gives him a faithful description of the remains of cities, the very existence of which was doubtful, as they perished before the aera of authentic history.”  The subjoined quotation is a good specimen of the author’s minuteness of research as a topographer; and we trust that the credit which must accrue to him from the present performance will ensure the completion of his Itinerary:—­