I. FRANCE AND ITALY.--General effects of travel--Study of classical architecture--Observation of natural scenery--Universality and accuracy of examination. II. GREECE AND CONSTANTINOPLE.--Growth of artistic power--Impressions of Athens and Constantinople--Contrast of the Turkish and Greek characters. III. EGYPT AND THE EAST.--Great effect of Egyptian architecture upon him--Mehemet Ali’s government--Dendera, Esneh, Edfou, Philæ, Abousimbel, Thebes--Return to Cairo--Palestine--Jerash--Baalbec--Damascus--Palmyra. IV. SICILY AND ITALY.--Syracuse, Messina, Agrigentum, and Palermo--Return to Rome--Meeting with Mr. J. L. Wolfe--Systematic architectural study--Effects of Egyptian impressions--Italian palaces at Rome, Florence, Vicenza, and Venice--Italian churches--St. Peter’s, the Pantheon, the cathedrals at Florence and Milan--The Bridge of La Santa Trinita at Florence--The growth of his architectural principles--Return to England. On June 28th, 1817, Mr. Barry left England, and remained abroad for more than three years. During that time he travelled, first, chiefly alone, in France and Italy; next with Mr. (afterwards Sir C.) Eastlake, and Messrs. Kinnaird and Johnson, in Greece and Turkey; thirdly, with Mr. D. Baillie, Mr. Godfrey, and Mr. (afterwards Sir T.) Wyse, in Egypt, Palestine, and Syria; and lastly, chiefly in company with Mr. J. L. Wolfe, in Sicily and Italy, returning alone through France in August, 1820. His travels had, at the time, a considerable interest of their own: few had gone so far as the second cataracts of the Nile; still fewer had added to their Egyptian experiences so great an extent of Eastern and Western travels. Accordingly, on his return to Rome, he was one of the lions of the season, and his portfolio of sketches excited unbounded interest, as much by their novelty as by their intrinsic excellence. All this is, of course, greatly changed; scenes then little known have become almost hackneyed; what were then difficult and even hazardous journeys, are now pleasant summer excursions. The intrinsic interest of any narrative of his travels (such as might easily be drawn from his copious journals) is therefore to a great extent lost. But the importance of their effect on his own mind can hardly be exaggerated, and it is to this, therefore, that attention must here be drawn.