viii PREFACE. 



the information of others, every thing that 

 I wimed to have known when I was my- 

 felf making the tour. This, allowing for 

 all the differences of tafle and opinion, 

 feemed to me the beft criterion by which 

 to judge of the wifhes of the public ; in 

 what manner I have fucceeded, the volumes 

 themfelves muft (hew. 



I have, as will be found upon perufal, 

 interfperfed them but little, either with 

 reflections or incidental ilories : indeed of 

 the latter, I ought candidly to confefs, that 

 I met with very few which I thought 

 worth recording. Two late tourifts, Mr. 

 Pratt and Mr. Warner, if they have not 

 introduced the novelift too often in their 

 works, (which, by the way, I mrewdly 

 fufpect they have) were infinitely more 

 fortunate in meeting with adventures than 

 I was. 



In the defcription of the country, I have 

 invariably endeavoured to let the fcenes 



form 



