SIX MONTH'S TOUR, &c. 



LETTER I. 



Dear Sir, June 1768. 



YOUR remark that the minutes J. 

 took of my Six Weeks Tour were by- 

 no means complete, in not being extended 

 over each county I paffed through, is cer- 

 tainly very juft ; but at the fame time you 

 muft allow me to obferve, that fuch per- 

 fection is not to be expected from the lei- 

 fure and fortune of a private perfon, who 

 has other matters to attend to befides the 

 public good. I am very fenfible of the 

 advantages which would refult from a tour 

 upon this plan through every village in 

 the kingdom ; but I do not think we 

 mould flight fuch general views as thefe 

 I venture to the world, becaufe greater 

 advantages in the traveller would be at- 

 tended with a more enlarged intelligence. 



In a word, my good friend, I am 



encouraged to un'dertftke a fecond tour by 

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