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interesting, as they were sufficiently so in themselves. We 

 shall give a very short extract from it, in which we shall try 

 to disentangle the truth from the false as much as we 

 possibly can. ... 



" In spite of some additions, made in various places of this 

 Voyage, which consist mostly of reflections, which it is easy 

 to distinguish, the reading of it is most agreeable." 



"In fact," writes M. Th. Sauzier^ : — " Casimir 

 Freschot (a laborious writer, translator and compiler, 

 1676-1716), the anonymous author of Remarques 

 Historiques et Critiques, etc., whom Leguat, without 

 naming, indicates and severely vilifies in his preface, 

 tells us that this self-same preface^ had been com- 

 posed by one well-known Maximilien Misson, 

 and that the work bad been drawn up by Paul 

 Benelle of Metz," (Vide, Nouvelle Relation de la 

 Ville et Repuhlique de Venise. Utrecht, 1709.) 

 At tlie same time, M. Sauzier informs us, there 

 appears under the name of Leguat, in the 

 Catalogue General des Livres composant la Bihlio- 

 theque du Departement de la Marine (Paris, 1840), 

 the following note : " The Preface is by Maximilien 

 Misson ; tlie work has been written by Paul B... of 

 Metz." 



Nevertheless, Maximilien Misson apparently refers 

 to this work on Venice in his preface to the fourth 



1 See Un Frojet de Repuhlique, p. 23. 



" " Monsieur Misson, Autheur d'un Voyage d'ltalie, ayant pris 

 I'occasion d'un noviveau voyage de Frangois Legaut, qui s'est im- 

 prime pour y faire una preface s'y est terriblement dechaine contre 

 I'Autheur d'un autre voyage de meme nature qui avoit ote re- 

 marquer quelques bevues qu'il avoit faites dans le sien. . . ." 

 ([.p. 221-95). 



