ACCOUNT OF BOOKS. 



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is a miserable farrago of all the 

 stories that could be scraped toge- 

 ther from the inaccurate and false 

 accounts that appeared in newspa- 

 pers, magazines, and other pam- 

 phlets, after Mr. Fox's death, on 

 pretence of gratifying public cu- 

 riosity. 



A Second Journey in Spaiti, in 

 the Spritig of 1 809 ; Jtom Lis- 

 bon, through the Western 

 Skirts of the Sierra Moreno, 

 to Sevilla, Cordoba, Granada, 

 Malaga, and Gibraltar, and 

 thence to Tetuan and Tan- 

 giers. With Plates, contain- 

 ing tiventy-four Figures, illus- 

 trative of the Costume and Man- 

 ners of the Inhabitants of seve- 

 ral of the Spanish Frovinces. 

 By Robert Semple, Author of 

 Observations on a Journey 

 through Spain and Italy to 

 Naples, and thence to Smyrna 

 and Constanttnopley in 1805, 

 S(C. 8fc. 



There are two kinds of tra- 

 vellers : 1. Travellers who, re- 

 maining long at different stages, 

 make immense colleciions from 

 printed books, and MS. contri- 

 butions too, from individuals on 

 all manner of subjects. History, 

 Natural and Civil, Political and 

 Kural Economy, the slate of 



Science, Arts, Manufactures, and 

 Coumerce, &c. &c. from which, 

 with their own speculations inter- 

 mixed, they make a great number 

 of thick and heavy volumes, which 

 they distinguish by the alluring 

 name of Travels ; though that of 

 Miscellaneous Collections and Ob- 

 servations would be by far a more 

 appropriate title. The journey is 

 so slow, and interrupted by so fre- 

 quent and such long intervals, that 

 we entirely lose sight of it, and 

 contemplate only an industrious 

 compiler : an author, more anx- 

 ious to display all that he knows, 

 and all that he can scrape together, 

 that can be crammed into his 

 book by any kind of relation, 

 than to draw from the life, and 

 describe with fidelity and precision, 

 what actually come under the re- 

 cognizance of their own senses.* 



The second kind of travellers 

 are they who go on, with more or 

 less rapidity, but without interrup- 

 tion, and at every turn amuse their 

 readers with something new or un- 

 expected, either in the aspect of 

 the country, or in the situation, 

 character, and manners of men. 

 Due rest and refreshmerit such 

 travellers must have, as well as the 

 loitering travellers, and different 

 circumstances may invite them to 

 sojourn longer in one territory, or 

 remain longer in one spot than 

 another. But still they are ever on 



the 



* A travellerof this description had visited Sweden, some little time before 

 Signior Guiseppe Acerbi passed through that country, in his travels to the 

 North Cape. The Swedes told Acerbi, that the traveller, who was an Englishman, 

 had been extremelv troublesome to every society to which he had access, by not 

 only endless questions to be answered verbally, but applications to divefs per- 

 sons for accounts of this and that in writing : while, at the same time, he did not 

 lay himself out to afford either amusement or instruction, by his own conver- 

 sation. This anecdote was not omitted in the translation of Acerbi's Travels ; but 

 it was discretely struck out by the bookseller JMawman, who purchased the trans. 

 lation, together with the copy -right of the original ; as the trouble some travellers 

 have, &c was mentioned. 



