213] {174} [William Martin Leake (1777-1860), traveller and
numismatist, published (_inter alia_) _Researches in Greece_, in 1814.
He was "officially resident" in Albania, February, 1809-March, 1810.]

[214] [_A Journey through Albania during the Years 1809-10_, London,
1812.]

[215] {175} [The inhabitants of Albania, of the Shkipetar race, consist
of two distinct branches: the Gueghs, who belong to the north, and are
for the most part Catholics; and the Tosks of the south, who are
generally Mussulmans (Finlay's _History of Greece_, i. 35).]

[gg] _I laughed so much as to induce a violent perspiration to which ...
I attribute my present individuality_.--[D.]

[216] {176} [The mayor of the village; in Greek, [Greek: proestos].]

[217] [The father of the Consulina Teodora Macri, and grandfather of the
"Maid of Athens."]

[218] [_Tristram Shandy_, 1775, iv. 44.]

[219] [See _Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron_, 1824, p.64.]

[220] {177} [Compare _The Waltz_, line 125--"O say, shall dull
_Romaika's_ heavy sound." _Poems_, 1898, i. 492.]

[221] {186} [Francois Mercy de Lorraine, who fought against the
Protestants in the Thirty Years' War, was mortally wounded at the battle
of Nordlingen, August 3, 1645.]

[222] {187} [Byron and Hobhouse visited Marathon, January 25, 1810. The
unconsidered trifle of the "plain" must have been offered to Byron
during his second residence at Athens, in 1811.]

[223] ["Expende Annibalem--quot libras," etc. (Juvenal, x. 147), is the
motto of the _Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte_, which was written April 10,
1814.--_Journal_, 1814; _Life_, p. 325.]

[224] [Compare letter to Hodgson, September 25, 1811: _Letters_, 1898,
ii. 45.]

[225] [Miss Owenson (Sydney, Lady Morgan), 1783-1859, published her
_Woman, or Ida of Athens_, in 4 vols., in 1812. Writing to Murray,
February 20, 1818, Byron alludes to the "cruel work" which an article
(attributed to Croker but, probably, written by Hookham Frere) had made
with her _France_ in the _Quarterly Review_ (vol. xvii. p. 260); and in
a note to _The Two Foscari_, act iii. sc. 1, he points out that his
description of Venice as an "Ocean-Rome" had been anticipated by Lady
Morgan in her "fearless and excellent work upon Italy." The play was
completed July 9, 1821, but the work containing the phrase, "Rome of the
Ocean," had not been received till August 16 (see, too, his letter to
Murray, August 23, 1821). His conviction of the excellence of Lady
M