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Account of Mr. Lcdyard, continued from page 19. 

 The remarks upon man and things," cf one who had 

 feen fo much of the v/orld, muft always be deemed 

 precious. They are not the unmeaning daubing of a^ 

 cafual obferver. Evevy word is expreilivc, and lias a 

 ftrong meaning, and fuggcils new ideas to every atten- 

 tive reader. The following extra(!ls therefore from his 

 letters, will no doubt prove intereiling to the public. 



" Auguft 26th. This day I was introduced by R'^- 

 "fette (the Venetian conful, at that time charge d' nf- 

 Jhires for the Engliih coraul at Cairo) to tlie Aga Ivla- 

 liommed, the conlklcntial minifter of Ifniael, the mod 

 powerful of the four ruling beys : He gave me his 

 hand to kifs, and with it the promife of letters, protec- 

 tion and fupport througli Turkiih Nubia, and aJfo to 

 fome cliiefs far inland. In a fubfequent converfation, 

 he told me I ihould fee in my travels a people who had 

 po\ier to tranfnmte themfelves into the forms of dillcr- 

 ent animals. Me alked me what I tliought of the af- 

 i.dr.'' I did not like to render the ignorance, fmipiicity, 

 and credulity of the Turk apparent. I told him that 

 it formed a part of tiie character cf all favages to be 

 great Necromancers; but that I had never before heard 

 <;f any fo great as thofe he hr-! done me the honour to 

 defctibe; that it had rendered me the more anxious to 

 he on my voyage, and if I pafied among them, I would 

 in the letter I promifed to write to him, give him a 

 more particular account of them than he had hitherto 

 had. He aficed me how I could travel v/ithcut the lan- 

 guage of the people where I fhould pafs.? I told him 

 with vocabularies: I might as well have read to him a 

 page of Newton's Principia. He returned to his fa- 

 i)les again. Is it not curious, that tlie Egyptians (for, 

 I fpeak of the natives of the country, as well as of him> 

 \\}icn I make tlic''obfcrvatIons} are ftill fuch dupes to 



