Byron mid Grand Tour in another Albanian Costume, "I swam from Sestos to Abydos, the immediate distance is not above a mile but the current renders it hazardous, so much so, that I doubt wheher Leander's conjugal powers must not have been exhausted in his passage to paradise"
- Byron May 13th1810

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Below: The house of Nicolo Arghri, Byron's residence in 1809
Mrs Spencer Smith
"I have found her very pretty, very accomplished, and extremely eccentric"
- Byron Sept 15th 1809 Malta
See also 'To Florence', 'Stanzas Written in Passing the Ambracian Gulf', 'Lines Written in an Album at Malta', 'Stanza's Composed During a Thunderstorm' and 'Childe Harold' II 30-35
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