[54] Address of Lord Colchester to Count Strzelecki on presenting him with the medal. [55] Discoveries in Australia, vol. 1. p. 252. [56] p. 394. [57] vol. 2. p. 10. [58] London Athenæum, July 25, 1846. Ibid. Aug. 8, 1846. [59] Report of Dr. Leichardt's Expedition, Simmonds' Colonial Magazine, vol. 2, 1845. [60] London Athenæum. Nov. 3, 1846. [61] Simmond's Colonial Magazine, Nov. 1846. [62] Herodotus, in speaking of the subjugation of Lycia, by Cyrus and Harpagus, says; "When Harpagus led his army towards Xanthus, the Lycians boldly advanced to meet him, and, though inferior in numbers, behaved with the greatest bravery. Being defeated and pursued into their city, they collected their wives, children and valuable effects, into the citadel, and there consumed the whole in one immense fire.... Of those who now inhabit Lycia, calling themselves Xanthians, _the whole are foreigners_, eighty families excepted."--_Clio_, 176. See also _Clio_, 171-173. Herodotus further states that the Lycians originated from the Cretans, a branch of the Hellenic race; and Strabo, in a fragment preserved from Ephorus, states that the Lycians were a people of Greek origin, who had settled in the country previously occupied by the barbarous tribes of Mylians and Solymi. Homer briefly alludes to the Lycians, who, at the siege of Troy, assisted the Trojans under certain rulers whose names are mentioned.--_Iliad_, b. v. and xii. [63] Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London. Vol. IX. [64] Ibid. Vol. XV. p. 104. [65] Wellsted's Travels in Arabia, Vol. I. p. 92. [66] Particulars read to the meeting of Royal Geographical Society of London, November 9, 1846.--London Ath. [67] Les Steppes de la mer Caspienne, le Caucase, la Crimée et la Russie méridionale; voyage Pittoresque, Historique et Scientifique; par X. Hommaire de Hell. 3 vols. royal 8vo. and folio atlas of Plates. Paris, 1845. [68] I feel warranted in going back and tracing the progress of these discoveries, as so little is known of it by English readers. The translation of Grotefend's essay in Heeren's Researches, was the only accessible original treatise on the subject, until the recent publications of Major Rawlinson and Prof. Westergaard. In Germany, much has been written and some in France. These papers are chiefly in antiquarian or philological Transactions and are scarcely known here. A full account of the discovery in question, of its progress and present state, seems therefore necessary. [69] Grotefend's Essay on the cuneiform inscriptions, in Heeren's Asiatic Nations. Vol. II. p. 334.