IN TURKISH AND GREEK WATERS. BY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF CARLISLE. SECOND EDITION. LONDON: LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS. PREFACE. It will be perceived that I have resolved the doubt, expressed in the opening sentences of this Diary, in favour of publication. I have most assuredly not been led to this decision by any presumption that the hurried entries which it contains, written almost without exception on the days to which they refer, can be supposed to include sufficient matter worthy of being directly addressed either to the scholar, the antiquary, the artist, the politician, or the divine; but I have thought it possible, considering the places which I have visited, and the periods of my visit, that they might awaken or recall associations, among each of these classes, which they will have derived from less shallow sources. It will, I think, be apparent that, even amidst such scenes, and at so stirring an era, nothing whatever |