THEPREFACE. xv 



The other additional Remarks and Obfervationsj contained 

 in this Supplement, chiefly regard 



The Petrified City, in Barhary, CHAP. II. p. lo. 



The Ofirich and fome other Scripture- Animals, CHAP. VI. 

 p. 66. 



The Mo[aic Pavement at Tr^nefte, CHAP.VIL p. 84.. 

 y^nd as Thefe have a ?nore immediate Connexion with theToints 

 in Difpite, fa they are occafionally inferted^ as proper 'Digref- 

 fions or Differtations, in the Controverfial Part ; the Occafion 

 of which 1 am now to [peak of. 



Before I perufed the Defcription of the Eaft, I flattered my 

 felfy as well on Account of the great Intimacy andFriendJInp, 

 that had, for many Tears^ fubfifted betwixt the Author and 

 myfelf, as of our feeming Unanimity and Agreement, when- 

 ever the Converfation turned, as it often had done, upon the 

 Suhje^s in Difpute ; that, without giving me fome previotcs 

 Notice and Advice, He would not, in [0 unexpehed a Manner, 

 have drawn me into a Controverfy ; which, in Juftice to my 

 own Obfervations, how contrary foever it may be to my Incli- 

 nations, he might well imagine, I could not poffibly avoid. 



Neither has this Author been more friendly to me, in other Re- 

 fpe^S' For, as it willfufficiently appear, on comparingfuch Tarts 

 of our Defer iptions, as correfpond to each other, that, in fever al 

 Toints, hitherto overlooked or difregarded or miftaken by for- 

 mer Travellers, I had carried the Torch and marked out the 

 Way before him ; yet he has not vouchfafed, fo much as once, 

 in this Voluminous Work, to acknowledge the Affiftance, or the 

 many ufeful Hints, at lea ft, which he had received from my 

 Book ^/"Travels. In like Manner, whenever thefe Obfervations 

 of rnine were not agreeable to hk Sentiments ; ajid, inftead of 

 being adopted by Him, were to be controverted, as fo many fup- 

 pofed Errors and Miftakes\ there the Author of them fill con- 

 tinues to be equally concealed \ or, which is thefatne, he is com- 

 prehended only, in fome general unmeaning Expref/ton, among 

 fome People, certain Authors, falfos quofdam and the like. 

 Whereas, upon the moU critic alExamination, the Obfervations 

 in Difpute, will all of them appear to be my own ; either origin 

 nallyfuch, or which, atleafi, I have made fo, by putting fme 

 new Glofs and Interpretation upon them, 



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