A guide along the Danube

to search out many doubtful or unauthenticated sites of ancient places and other objects of curiosity, the tour sketched out in the following pages, embraces only the things worth seeing along the Danube, at Constantinople, in the Dardanelles, at Smyrna, Ephesus, Athens, the Ionian Islands, and on the way through Italy, by way of Venice, homewards.

Such an excursion, whilst it is most economical, both as to time and money, will give the traveller ample means of forming a judgment of the political and social condition of some of the most interesting countries in the world; while it will bring under his notice almost every thing worth seeing amongst those monuments of former greatness, included within the limits of Greece and Turkey.

Those who may cherish a desire of visiting the Ottoman capital before it is entirely stripped of its original Turkish features; or who, tired of the long-trodden routes through France, Switzerland, and Italy, may meditate a visit to Athens and the adjacent places, will here find

a hand-book to carry them along their journey in the most agreeable and least costly manner.

The list of prices charged by the French Government post-office steam-boats, with the days of their arrival and departure, distances, time occupied in the voyage, &c., forming pages xvi and xvii, has been compiled from information obtained whilst the sheets of the book were passing through the press; and will be found highly useful. The discrepancies which may occasionally appear between this and the statements in the book itself, arise in most cases out of the changes just effected in the regulation of the steamers. This list, however, may be relied upon for its accuracy.

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