THE 



PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE. 



MAY 1799- 



\. Report on the Travels of C. Olivier and C. Bru- 

 guieee, undertaken by order of the French Government, 

 through the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and Perjia, during 

 the Years 1792, 93, 94, 95> 9 6 and 97- Read in the 

 Sitting of the National hijlitute, February 14th. By C, 

 Olivier. 



J.N the year 1793 the provisional executive council, fenfi- 

 ble of the advantages which might refult to commerce, agri- 

 culture, natural hiftory, geography, medicine, &c. by a tour 

 through the Ottoman empire, Egypt and Perfia ; perfuaded 

 that thefe interefting countries had never been confidered 

 under a proper point of view, or had been confidered only 

 partially, and that we had ftill much to learn refpfifting 

 them, made choice of C. Bruguiere and myfelf to accomplish 

 that object. 



After fome delays, we at length failed from Marfeilles, in 

 April 1793, in a neutral veffel, and, without touching any 

 where by the way, arrived at Conftantinople, after a pleafant 

 voyage, on the aift of May. 



It would be difficult to exprefs the different fenfations ex- 

 cited in the traveller by the firft view of that large city and 



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