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"[Cintra] unites in itself all the wildness of the Western Highlands with the verdure of the South of France."

Location of Burgage Manor where Byron visited

The second country visited during the Mediterranedan Tour. "Byron and Hobhouse travelled across Spain in the summer of 1809. ... The version of this journey in CHP I is concerned with
the effects of the Napoleonic annexation of Spain in 1808 ...."…

"Galt also writes something not very intelligible about a “Spartan state paper” which by his account is anything but Laconic, now the said Sparta having some years ceased to be a state, what the devil does he mean by a paper?" 1810-10-04 to Hobhouse

1810-06-28 Byron makes light of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's praise of St Paul's over St Sophia's.

Istanbul, rather than Constantinople, which Byron calls "Stamboul" in 1810-05-05. Deathplace of Claude Alexandre de Bonneval

Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, August 11th 1809: "... I am to have the house for a few days of one of their great men, which was intended for Lady W[estmoreland], whose health will not permit her to cross the Straits. –"

Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, November 12th 1809:
(Source: text from Morgan Library, photocopy from microfilm; LJ I 246-57; QI 58-63; BLJ I 226-31)
Named and visited by Byron 1809-11-12. Byron specifies on the coast; geo coor are inland.

Visited as of 1810-05-03. A promontory located 69 kilometres (43 mi) SSE of Athens, at the southernmost tip of the Attica peninsula in Greece. Wiki

"My firman for Syria & Ægypt being arrived I am off in Spring for Mount Sion, Damascus, Tyre & Sidon, Cairo & Thebes. –"
1811-02-01 to Hobhouse