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H E following Ohfervations are 

 prefented to the Reader, as an 

 Effay towards rejiortng the an- 

 tient Geography, and placing in 

 a proper Light the Natural 

 Htflory ofthofe Countries, where 

 the Author has traveUed. In 

 purfuance of which Defign, the 

 Geographical and Phyfical Oh- 

 fervations, are not Mended and mixed together , as they 

 chanced to fall in his JVay ; hut are ranged under di- 

 JiinEl Heads , without repeating at every Turn and upon 

 every Occafion, the Time, T^lace , or Manner , wherein 

 they were made. However, as the Method of furveying 

 thefe Countries \ the Diet and Reception of the Traveller ; 

 the Hardfhips and Dangers to which he is expojed', 

 with other Incidents of the like Nature, may he thought 

 Matter of too great Curtofity to he paffed over in Silence ; 

 the z^uthor propofes to fupply, all that may he wanting 

 upon that Suhjeci, hy giving the Reader, in one View , 



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