Excerpt from Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa, Vol. 5: Part the Second; Greece, Egypt and the Holy Land; Section the Second Travels, will enable the Reader to form a tale rable estimate of the probable compass of the entire Work; and it may serve to prove, that the author, if he should live to complete his undertaking, will not have exceeded his original estimate, in the account of a journey through forty-five degrees of longitude, and nearly forty degrees of latitude. In his endeavour to coneen trate the subject, he may have omitted observa tions which a particular class of Readers would have preferred to those which have been inserted. He has sometimes, for example, sacrificed statistical notices, that he might introduce his torical information, where Antient History is pre-eminently interesting; and again, on the other hand, he has purposely omitted much that he had written on the subject of Antiquities, that he might insert a few remarks upon the Egyptian and Grecian scenery, and upon the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia, and Africa, Vol. 2: Greece, Egypt, and the Holy Land Wusn the author published the first volume of these Travels, he proposed to divide the work into three por tions. The observations made in Greece, Syria, and Egypt, were reserved for the astond part; whether con sisting of one volume, or of more than one. This plan it still pursued; but from the very perplexed state of the geography of the country alluded to by the word Syria the less exce tionable appellation of Paladins was sub stituted, in t e second edition, for that of Syria. The same perplexity has again induced the author to alter what he had thus written, and to consider the present pub lication as containing observations made in Greece, Egypt, and the Holy Land. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.