Excerpt from Guide Down the Danube: From Paris to Marseilles, Ancona, Trieste, Venice, Munich, Strasburg; And From Vienna to Constantinople, Smyrna, Athens, the Morea, and the Ionian Islands, Also the Route to India by Way of Egypt In order to enable the traveller to avoid those delays, difficulties, and dangers which must attend any attempt to search out many doubtful or uh authenticated sites of ancient places, and, other objects of curiosity, the tour sketched out in the following pages, embraces only the things worth seeing along the Danube, at Constantinople, in the Dardanelles, at Smyrna, Ephesus, Athens, the Ionian Islands, and on the way through Italy, by way of Venice, homewards. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.