154 CHRISTIAN GREECE AND LIVING GREEK. clearness of diction in the description of the conditions of ancient as well as modern Hel- las. The rich information which he had gained by his travels in almost all parts of Greece are found in his works: "Travels in the Morea," 3 vols., London, 1830; "Travels in Northern Greece," 4 vols., Cambridge, 1835 ; " Topography of Athens," 2 vols., second edition, Cambridge, 1841; "Tour in Asia Minor," London, 1824; " Memoir on the Island of Cos," London, 1843; " Greece at the End of Twenty-three Years of Protection," London, 185 1. Having finished his elaborate work, " Numismatica Hellenica," 3 vols., Cambridge, 1854-59, ^^ ^i^^ January 6th, i860, at Brighton. Other travellers were W. Gell, Dodwell, Doug- las, Lord Guildford, Macdonald, Kinneir, Hol- land, Hughes, Hobhouse, Byron. Athens was at that time the meeting-place for strangers, a regular colony of scholars. The central figure in this society was for a time Lord Guildford, whom the Greeks gave the name of the greatest, the three times greatest Philhellene. There was also the Austrian Consul Gropius, a Philhel- lene, notwithstanding the pronounced hatred of his government toward the Greeks. Further the Frenchman Fauval, who for a period of thirty
