CHAPTER II

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_A GROUP OF CLASSICAL ARCHÆOLOGISTS AND EXPLORERS._

_Sir William Hamilton and his Pursuits and Employments in Italy.—The Acquisitions of the French Institute of Egypt, and the capture of part of them at Alexandria.—Charles Towneley and his Collection of Antiquities.—The Researches of the Earl of Elgin in Greece.—The Collections and Writings of Richard Payne Knight_ 346

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