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Where he gives a brief station of his fir ft Travels through the 

 heft parts of Europe as far as Conftantinoplc. 



Jg F the effect, of Education may be liken'd to a fecond 

 jg Birth, I may truly fay , that I came into the World 

 "1? with a defire to travel. The daily difcourfes 

 ^#, which feveral Learned men had with my Father 

 S upon Geographical fubjects, which my Father had 

 §|s the reputation of undcrftanding very well, and to 

 *<$ which, though very young, I was with much 

 delight attentive, infpir'd me betimes with a defign 

 to fee fome part of thole Countries, which were reprefented to me 

 in the Maps, from which I never could keep off my Eyes. By two 

 and twenty years of Age , therefore I had feen the faireft Regions of 

 Europe, France, England, the Low Countries , Germany, Switzerland , 

 Poland , Hungary , and Italy ; and I fpake indifferently well the Langua- 

 ges mod necefTary and molt generally fpoken. 



Myfirft fally was into England, where at that time Reigned King 

 James - from thence I pz&d into Flanders to fee ^Antwerp, my Father's 

 Native Country, and lb into the Low Countries , where my inclination 

 to travel became the ftronger , by reafon of the great concourfe of Stran- 

 gers which I met at ^imjte rdam , that crouded thither from all parts of 

 the World. 



Having feen what was moft confideraJble in the united Provinces ,"* 

 IpalVd into Germany, and when I came to Norimbcrgh , by the way of 

 Frankfort and Kjfufyurgh , the noife of the Armies that were marching 

 into Bohemia to retake Prague , inftill'd into me a defire to go to the 

 Wars , where I might learn (bmething that might be ufeful to Yne in the 

 feries of my travels. I was not above a days journey from Norimbergb, 

 when I met a Colonel of Horfe, whole name was Hans Brencr , the 

 Son of Philip Brener , Govemour of Vienna , who engag'd me to follow 

 him into Bohemia. Sometime after I bore the fame Colonel company 

 to Vienna, who prefented me to the Governour of Raah , his Uncle, 

 then Viceroy of Hungayy alio-, who receiv'd me into his Family as one 

 of his Pages. For it is a ufual thing in Germany for Gentlemen's Sons 

 tofervein that quality 'till rive and twenty years of age, and feldom 

 to quit that fervice , 'till they have a CommiiTion for a Corner, or 

 Enhgns place. Four years and a half I ferv'd the Viceroy, when the 

 Prince 'of Mantua came to Vienna , to engage the Emperour in certain 



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