FROM

THE LEVANT;

CONTAINING VIEWS OF THE

STATE OF SOCIETY, MANNERS, OPINIONS,
AND COMMERCE,

IN

GREECE,

AND

SEVERAL OF THE PRINCIPAL ISLANDS

OF THE

ARCHIPELAGO.

INSCRIBED TO THE PRINCE KOSLOVSKY.

BY JOHN GALT.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR T. CADELL AND W. DAVIES, STRAND.

BODLEIR

1 4 MAY 1931 IBRAD

Printed by NicHOLS, SON, and BENTLEY,
Red Lion Passage, Fleet Street, London.

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THE PRINCE PETER KOSLOVSKY,

MEMBER OF THE FRENCH LEGION OF HONOUR;

DOCTOR OF LAWS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD; COUNSELLOR OF STATE,

CHAMBERLAIN TO THE EMPEROR,

I WILL explain the reasons which induce me to dedicate this work to your Excellency, and to emblazon so small a mark of my regard with so many of your titles.

Accident originally led you to offer me the honour of your acquaintance. Since that time many events have been developed, of which we then thought the seeds were discernible in the policy of France. Among the variety of their effects was your visit to England, in the course of which you had the condescension to seek me out, and to treat me with a degree of confidence that could