No country in the world presents, perhaps, more interesting associations to the geographer, the historian, and the antiquary than Asia Minor. It has hitherto, however, been comparatively but little visited, and its geography has been very superficially explored. It is no exaggeration to say that there is scarcely a spot of ground, however small throughout this extensive peninsula, which does not contain some relic of antiquity, or is not more or less connected with that History which, through an uninterrupted period of more than thirty centuries, records the most spirit-stirring events ...

in the destinies of the human race, and during which time this country attracted the attention of the world as the battle-field of powerful nations.

RESEARCHES IN ASIA MINOR, PONTUS AND ARMENIA:

WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THEIR ANTIQUITIES AND GEOLOGY

VOLUME 1

WILLIAM JOHN HAMILTON

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