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IN his note to ' Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,' canto ii. stanza xxxviii. (London, 1819, p. 138), Lord Byron says that no English- man, except Leake, had ever advanced beyond Janina. The statement is pro- bably true, on condition, of course, that it refers only to Albania, since long before Byron wrote Edward Brown had penetrated far into Macedonia. Coming from Servia, Brown saw Perlep, also the mountains near
