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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 June 2012
In compliance with your request, I now forward to you the accompanying journal of my proceedings at Ithaca; and I have the greater pleasure in so doing, as it affords me an opportunity of showing my respect for and obedience to the wishes of one holding the office of Director of the Society of Antiquaries of London. At the same time, I cannot expect that this journal will be deserving of much of your attention, which is generally bestowed on higher subjects; though under your guidance I trust that it may not prove unacceptable to this Society.
page 45 note a Captain Guitiera was an officer of the Corsicans in our pay. I recollect that you once informed me he afterwards obtained an unenviable notoriety in Ithaca, from having melted a number of silver vases which he had disinterred, in order to make spoons and forks of the metal: and that Colonel de Bosset assured you that he had actually seen the latter in use!
page 50 note b An inscription being all that was wanting to render this a perfect bijou, a fanciful one was quickly devised; and we read on the under side, lightly engraved, ΣΑΦΦ°γ ∧Α°ΔΑΜΙΑΣ; a discovery that soon spread far beyond our little antiquarian circle!
page 52 note * It is conjectured that other coins were found; but which, by accident or otherwise, were not brought into the common stock.