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the Chair of Greek Literature at Cambridge, with the desire on the part of the trustees that he should visit Europe. Accepting the office, he embarked for Liverpool, and spent two years at the world-renowned University of Gottingen. 1817-18 he passed at Paris, visiting London in the spring of 1818, and remaining for a couple of months at Cambridge and Oxford. "During this time he formed the acquaintance of most of the prominent men of the day in England, among them Sir Walter Scott, Jeffrey, Lord Byron, Thomas Campbell, Davy, Mackintosh, Romilly and others. During the fall of 1818 he revisited the Continent, and spent the winter months between Naples, Florence and Rome. In 1819 he made a short tour through Greece, and returned to the United States the same year, entering immediately upon his Gufies as Professor in Cambridge University. "Shortly afterward he became the editor of the North American Reci, and his powerful pen was employed in vindicating American principles