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THE 



ANSWER. 



Given in the Name of the Royal Aca- 

 demy of Sciences, by their Presi- 

 dent Mr. JOHN FREDERICK 

 KRUGER, 



S I R, 



I BELIEVE it is an undoubted truth, that 

 the advantage or difadvantage of travel 

 into foreign countries depends principally on 

 the inclination and abilities of the travellers. 

 To travel in order to acquire wifdom, is the 

 mod dangerous of all undertakings, efpecially 

 when the traveller is raw and unprincipled, 

 and not animated by the purefl love of his 

 country. The difadvantage would be but lit- 

 tle, if the head of fuch a traveller could only 

 return as empty as it fet out: for it would 

 then comprehend only the lofs of the money 

 fpent. But if his mind is filled with foreign 



follies, 



