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Excerpt from Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom, Vol. 5 Tm: following remarks are offered as an explanation of the Plan of Halicarnassus, and to communicate facts resulting from an investigation of that locality, in accordance with instructions forwarded by the Hydrographer Royal, Sir F. Beaufort, to Captain Graves, of h.m. S. Vessel Volage, ' to take ad vantage of some favourable Opportunity for visiting and making a careful examination of the ruins of Halicarnassus, with the view of setting at rest, if possible, the disputed position of the Mausoleum, now of much interest to the British public, by the recent acquisition of the boodroum marbles; which instructions I was directed by Captain Graves to carry out when H. M. S. Volage, ' and her tender the Research, ' which I then commanded, anchored there for that purpose in September, 1847. 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.

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