“The inaccuracies of the maps of Anacharsis are in many respects very glaring.  The situation of Phlius is marked by Strabo as surrounded by the territories of Sicyon, Argos, Cleonae, and Stymphalus.  Mr. Hawkins observed, that Phlius, the ruins of which still exist near Agios Giorgios, lies in a direct line between Cleonae and Stymphalus, and another from Sicyon to Argos; so that Strabo was correct in saying that it lay between those four towns; yet we see Phlius, in the map of Argolis by M. Barbie du Bocage, placed ten miles to the north of Stymphalus, contradicting both history and fact.  D’Anville is guilty of the same error.

“M. du Bocage places a town named Phlius, and by him Phlionte, on the point of land which forms the port of Drepano:  there are not at present any ruins there.  The maps of D’Anville are generally more correct than any others where ancient geography is concerned.  A mistake occurs on the subject of Tiryns, and a place named by him Vathia, but of which nothing can be understood.  It is possible that Vathi, or the profound valley, may be a name sometimes used for the valley of Barbitsa, and that the place named by D’Anville Claustra may be the outlet of that valley called Kleisoura, which has a corresponding signification.

“The city of Tiryns is also placed in two different positions, once by its Greek name, and again as Tirynthus.  The mistake between the islands of Sphaeria and Calaura has been noticed in page 135.  The Pontinus, which D’Anville represents as a river, and the Erasinus are equally ill placed in his map.  There was a place called Creopolis, somewhere toward Cynouria; but its situation is not easily fixed.  The ports called Bucephalium and Piraeus seem to have been nothing more than little bays in the country between Corinth and Epidaurus.  The town called Athenae, in Cynouria, by Pausanias, is called Anthena by Thucydides, book 5. 41.

“In general, the map of D’Anville will be found more accurate than those which have been published since his time; indeed the mistakes of that geographer are in general such as could not be avoided without visiting the country.  Two errors of D’Anville may be mentioned, lest the opportunity of publishing the itinerary of Arcadia should never occur.  The first is, that the rivers Malaetas and Mylaon, near Methydrium, are represented as running toward the south, whereas they flow northwards to the Ladon; and the second is, that the Aroanius, which falls into the Erymanthus at Psophis, is represented as flowing from the lake of Pheneos; a mistake which arises from the ignorance of the ancients themselves who have written on the subject.  The fact is that the Ladon receives the waters of the lakes of Orchomenos and Pheneos:  but the Aroanius rises at a spot not two hours distant from Psophis.”

In furtherance of our principal object in this critique, we have only to add a wish that some of our Grecian tourists, among the fresh articles of information concerning Greece which they have lately imported, would turn their minds to the language of the country.  So strikingly similar to the ancient Greek is the modern Romaic as a written language, and so dissimilar in sound, that even a few general rules concerning pronunciation would be of most extensive use.